Rhene

For other uses, see Rhene (disambiguation).

Rhene is a spider genus of the family Salticidae (jumping spiders).

Rhene
Male Rhene flavicomans from Hong Kong
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Salticidae
Subfamily:	Salticinae
Genus:	Rhene Thorell, 1869[1]
Type species
Rhanis flavigera C. L. Koch, 1846
Species
See text.
Diversity[1]
59 species

Taxonomy

The genus was originally named Rhanis by C. L. Koch in 1846. However, this name had already been used for a beetle genus in 1834. Accordingly, Tamerlan Thorell provided the replacement name Rhene in 1869.^[2] The name Rhene is derived from the Greek woman's name Rhene (Ῥήνη).^[2]

Species

R. atrata from Japan

As of May 2025^[update], the World Spider Catalog accepted the following extant species:^[1]

• Rhene albigera (C. L. Koch, 1846) – India to Korea, Sumatra
• Rhene amabilis Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024 – Uganda
• Rhene amanzi Wesołowska & Haddad, 2013 – South Africa
• Rhene atellana (Thorell, 1895) – Myanmar
• Rhene atrata (Karsch, 1881) – Russia, China, Korea, Taiwan, Japan
• Rhene banksi Peckham & Peckham, 1902 – South Africa
• Rhene biguttata Peckham & Peckham, 1903 – South Africa
• Rhene brevipes (Thorell, 1891) – Sumatra
• Rhene bufo (Doleschall, 1859) – Myanmar to Sumatra
• Rhene callida Peckham & Peckham, 1895 – India
• Rhene callosa (Peckham & Peckham, 1895) – India
• Rhene cancer Wesołowska & Cumming, 2008 – Zimbabwe
• Rhene candida Fox, 1937 – China
• Rhene capensis Strand, 1909 – South Africa
• Rhene cooperi Lessert, 1925 – South Africa
• Rhene curta Wesołowska & Tomasiewicz, 2008 – Ethiopia
• Rhene daitarensis Prószyński, 1992 – India
• Rhene darjeelingiana Prószyński, 1992 – India
• Rhene deplanata (Karsch, 1880) – Philippines
• Rhene digitata Peng & Li, 2008 – China
• Rhene elongata C. Wang, Mi & Peng, 2023 – China
• Rhene eximia Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024 – Uganda
• Rhene facilis Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2000 – Tanzania
• Rhene flavicomans Simon, 1902 – India, Bhutan, Sri Lanka
• Rhene flavigera (C. L. Koch, 1846) (type species) – China, Vietnam to Sumatra
• Rhene foai Simon, 1902 – South Africa
• Rhene formosa Rollard & Wesołowska, 2002 – Guinea
• Rhene habahumpa Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 – Philippines
• Rhene hexagon Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024 – Uganda
• Rhene hinlalakea Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 – Philippines
• Rhene hirsuta (Thorell, 1877) – Sulawesi
• Rhene histrio (Thorell, 1891) – India
• Rhene ipis Fox, 1937 – China
• Rhene jelskii (Taczanowski, 1871) – Peru, French Guiana
• Rhene kenyaensis Wesołowska & Dawidowicz, 2014 – Kenya
• Rhene konradi Wesołowska, 2009 – South Africa
• Rhene khulnaensis Biswas, 2023 – Bangladesh
• Rhene legitima Wesołowska & Haddad, 2018 – South Africa
• Rhene lesserti Berland & Millot, 1941 – Senegal
• Rhene leucomelas (Thorell, 1891) – Philippines
• Rhene lingularis Haddad & Wesolowska, 2011 – South Africa
• Rhene machadoi Berland & Millot, 1941 – Guinea
• Rhene margarops (Thorell, 1877) – Sulawesi
• Rhene menglunensis Wang & Li, 2020 – China
• Rhene modesta Caporiacco, 1941 – Ethiopia
• Rhene mombasa Wesołowska & Dawidowicz, 2014 – Kenya
• Rhene mordax (Thorell, 1890) – Java
• Rhene mus (Simon, 1889) – India
• Rhene myunghwani Kim, 1996 – Korea
• Rhene nigrita (C. L. Koch, 1846) – Indonesia
• Rhene obscura Wesołowska & van Harten, 2007 – Yemen
• Rhene pallida (Thorell, 1895) – India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, China, Vietnam
• Rhene parvula Caporiacco, 1939 – Ethiopia
• Rhene phuntsholingensis Jastrzebski, 1997 – Bhutan, Nepal
• Rhene plumata Haddad, Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024 – Mozambique
• Rhene pinguis Wesołowska & Haddad, 2009 – South Africa
• Rhene plana (Schenkel, 1936) – China
• Rhene punctatus Wesołowska & Haddad, 2013 – South Africa
• Rhene rubrigera (Thorell, 1887) – India to China, Sumatra, Hawaii
• Rhene saeva (Giebel, 1863) – Java
• Rhene setipes Zabka, 1985 – China, Vietnam, Ryūkyū Islands
• Rhene sororis Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024 – Uganda
• Rhene sulfurea (Simon, 1885) – Senegal
• Rhene timidus Wesołowska & Haddad, 2013 – South Africa
• Rhene triapophyses Peng, 1995 – China
• Rhene ugandensis Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024 – Uganda
• Rhene yunnanensis (Peng & Xie, 1995) – China