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Genus: Thyene Simon, 1885 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Thyene hesperia (Simon, 1909)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:044545

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Described:

Distribution: Guinea, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria

External Resources*: Jumping Spiders of the World Metzner (2026) | Salticidae Database Prószyński (2025) | GBIF

Type Repository Provide information

Lectotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France m (23082) - (Clark, 1974)
Paralectotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France f (23082) - (Clark, 1974)

Taxonomic References

Mithion hesperius Simon, 1909f: 427 (Dmf) Original description

Thyene hesperia Prószyński, 1987: 68 (mf; removed from S of Paramodunda aperta, rejecting Clark, 1974: 20)

Thyene hesperia Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2011: 608, f. 205-210 (mf, removed from S of Thyene aperta, rejecting Prószyński, 1990: 348 and Clark, 1974: 20)

References

Prószyński, J. (1987). Atlas rysunków diagnostycznych mniej znanych Salticidae 2. Zeszyty Naukowe Wyższej Szkoly Rolniczo-Pedagogicznej Siedlcach, 172 pp. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1909f). Arachnides recueillis par L. Fea sur la côte occidentale d'Afrique. 2e partie. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 44: 335-449. [[year corrected from 1910 to 1909, see pp. 337, 353, 369, etc.; following Bonnet, contra Roewer]] -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Russell-Smith, A. (2011). Jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from southern Nigeria. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 61(3): 553-619. doi: 10.3161/000345411X603409 -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Metzner, H. (2026). Jumping spiders (Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae) of the world. Online at https://www.jumping-spiders.com.

Prószyński, J. (2025). Salticidae (Araneae) Genera of the World "a management tool for developing a new system of Salticidae" - a scrollable e-Textbook. Version December 20th, 2025, online at http://www.salticidae.pl.

GBIF.org (2026). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [8 January 2026]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2025-06-29	Species distribution update	Wawer & Wesołowska, 2025	Old value
2022-10-17	Species distribution update	Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022	Old value