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

Thyene thyenioides (Lessert, 1925)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:036622

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Described:

Distribution: Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, South Africa

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

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Syntype: Muséum d'histoire naturelle de la ville de Genève (MHNG), Geneva, Switzerland 2m (ARTO-0027999) - (Lessert, 1925a)

Taxonomic References

Paramodunda thyenioides Lessert, 1925a: 471, f. 55-57 (Dmf) Original description

Paramodunda thyeniformis Caporiacco, 1947c: 243 (lapsus)

Paramodunda thyenioides Prószyński, 1984a: 168 (m, removed from S of Paramodunda aperta, rejecting Clark, 1974: 20)

Thyene thyenioides Wesołowska & Cumming, 2008: 218, f. 178-180 (m)

Thyene thyenioides Haddad & Wesołowska, 2011: 126, f. 216-217, 222-223 (f)

References

Caporiacco, L. di (1947c). Arachnida Africae Orientalis, a dominibus Kittenberger, Kovács et Bornemisza lecta, in Museo Nationali Hungarico servata. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici 40: 97-257. -- Show included taxa

Haddad, C. R. & Wesołowska, W. (2011). New species and new records of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from central South Africa. African Invertebrates 52(1): 51-134. doi: 10.5733/afin.052.0105 -- Show included taxa

Lessert, R. de (1925a). Araignées du Kilimandjaro et du Merou (suite). 5. Salticidae. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 31: 429-528. -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (1984a). Atlas rysunków diagnostycznych mniej znanych Salticidae (Araneae). Zeszyty Naukowe Wyższej Szkoły Rolniczo-Pedagogicznej w Siedlcach 2: 1-177. -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Cumming, M. S. (2008). Taxonomy and natural history of a species rich assemblage of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae); a long-term study of a suburban site in Zimbabwe. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 58: 167-230. -- 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]

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