Thyene leighi G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1903

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:036605

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Described:

Distribution: Kenya, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, South Africa


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Taxonomic References
Thyene leighii Peckham & Peckham, 1903: 225, pl. 25, f. 1 (Dm) Original description
Thyene ogdeni leighi Berland & Millot, 1941: 378 (reduced to subspecies)
Thyene leighi Wesołowska & Cumming, 2011: 99, f. 85-88, 100 (m, elevated to species)
Thyene leighi Wesołowska, 2011b: 341, f. 82-84 (m)
Thyene leighi Haddad, Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024: 71, f. 52A-F (m, Df)
References

Berland, L. & Millot, J. (1941). Les araignées de l'Afrique Occidentale Française I.-Les salticides. Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris (N.S.) 12: 297-423. -- Show included taxa

Haddad, C. R., Wiśniewski, K. & Wesołowska, W. (2024). The jumping spiders of Mozambique (Araneae: Salticidae). Zootaxa 5560(1): 1-92. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5560.1.1 -- Show included taxa

Peckham, G. W. & Peckham, E. G. (1903). New species of the family Attidae from South Africa, with notes on the distribution of the genera found in the Ethiopian region. Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters 14(1): 173-278, pl. 19-29. -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. (2011b). New species and new records of jumping spiders from Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe (Araneae: Salticidae). Genus 22: 307-346. -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Cumming, M. S. (2011). New species and records of jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae) from Sengwa Wildlife Research Area in Zimbabwe. Journal of Afrotropical Zoology 7: 75-104. -- 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
2024-12-30 New taxonomic reference entry Haddad, Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024
2024-12-30 First description of female Haddad, Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024 Old value
2024-12-30 Species distribution update Haddad, Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024 Old value
2016-10-01 Species distribution update Dawidowicz & Wesołowska, 2016 Old value

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