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Genus: Thyenula Simon, 1902 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Thyenula aurantiaca (Simon, 1902)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:036630

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Described:

Distribution: Mozambique, South Africa

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

Type Repository Provide information

Syntype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA 19f (IZ:22386) of Tularosa ogdeni - (Hill & Mariante, 2019)
Syntype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France 9m 8f (19617) - (Clark, 1974)

Taxonomic References

Hyllus aurantiacus Simon, 1902a: 392 (Dm) Original description

Tularosa ogdeni Peckham & Peckham, 1903: 246, pl. 28, f. 4 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:056452]

Tularosa aurantiacus Clark, 1974: 17 (T from Hyllus, S of Tularosa ogdeni)

Thyenula ogdeni Wesołowska, 1993b: 34, f. 1-10 (mf)

Thyenula aurantiaca Wesołowska, Azarkina & Russell-Smith, 2014: 49, f. 176-183 (mf)

Thyenula aurantiaca Haddad, Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024: 76, f. 55A-F (f)

References

Clark, D. J. (1974). Notes on Simon's types of African Salticidae. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 3(1): 11-27. -- 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

Simon, E. (1902a). Etudes arachnologiques. 32e Mémoire. LI. Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles de la famille des Salticidae (suite). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 71(1-2): 389-421. -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. (1993b). On the genus Tularosa Peckham et Peckham, 1903 (Araneae, Salticidae). Genus 4(1): 33-40. -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W., Azarkina, G. N. & Russell-Smith, A. (2014). Euophryine jumping spiders of the Afrotropical Region – new taxa and a checklist (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryinae). Zootaxa 3789(1): 1-72. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3789.1 -- 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
2024-12-30	New taxonomic reference entry	Haddad, Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024
2024-12-30	Species distribution update	Haddad, Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024	Old value
2014-08-07	New taxonomic reference entry	Wesołowska, Azarkina & Russell-Smith, 2014