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

Thyenula leighi (G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1903)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035969

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Described:

Distribution: Mozambique, South Africa

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

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Taxonomic References

Saitis leighii Peckham & Peckham, 1903: 197, pl. 21, f. 4 (Dm) Original description

Thyenula leighi Wesołowska, 2012b: 339, f. 50-55, 59-60 (Tm from Saitis, Df)

Saitis leighii Samir & Sherwan, 2013: 42, f. 4A-F (m; presumably misidentified)

Thyenula leighi Azarkina & Haddad, 2020: 18, f. 438 (m)

References

Azarkina, G. N. & Haddad, C. R. (2020). Partial revision of the Afrotropical Ballini, with the description of seven new genera (Araneae: Salticidae). Zootaxa 4899(1): 15-92. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4899.1.4 -- 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

Samir, M. A. & Sherwan, T. A. (2013). First record of three jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) in Mergasor (Erbil-Iraq). Trends in Life Sciences 1(4, 2012): 38-43. [[identically published in International Journal of Molecular Zoology 3(6) (2013): 20-23]] -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. (2012b). Redescriptions of some salticid species (Araneae: Salticidae) from South Africa and Zimbabwe described by G. and E. Peckham. African Entomology 20(2): 325-342. doi: 10.4001/003.020.0223 -- 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	Species distribution update	Haddad, Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024	Old value
2020-12-30	New taxonomic reference entry	Azarkina & Haddad, 2020