Thyene

Thyene is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1885.^[6] It is a junior synonym of Mithion,^[4] and senior synonym of Brancus, Paramodunda and Gangus.^[3][5][2]

Thyene
Thyene imperialis with prey
T. inflata from South Africa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Salticidae
Subfamily:	Salticinae
Genus:	Thyene Simon, 1885[1]
Type species
T. imperialis (Rossi, 1846)
Species
58, see text
Synonyms[1]
Brancus Simon, 1902[2] Gangus Simon, 1902[3] Mithion Simon, 1884[4] Paramodunda Lessert, 1925[5] Thya Simon, 1876

Distribution

Spiders in this genus are found in Africa, Europe, Asia, Brazil, and Queensland.^[1]

Species

• 
  male T. aperta
• 
  male T. australis
• 
  maleT. bilineata
• 
  juvenile female T. coccineovittata

As of October 2025^[update], this genus includes 58 species and one subspecies:^[1]

• Thyene aperta (G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1903) – Guinea, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Uganda, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Mozambique
• Thyene australis G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1903 – DR Congo, Uganda, Zimbabwe, South Africa
• Thyene benjamini Prószyński & Deeleman-Reinhold, 2010 – Indonesia (Sumbawa)
• Thyene bilaguncula (Xie & Peng, 1995) – China
• Thyene bilineata Lawrence, 1927 – Namibia, South Africa
• Thyene bivittata Xie & Peng, 1995 – Pakistan, India, Nepal, China
• Thyene blaisei (Simon, 1902) – Gabon, Uganda
• Thyene bucculenta (Gerstaecker, 1873) – Guinea, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Mozambique
• Thyene calebi (Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2018) – India, Sri Lanka
• Thyene chopardi Berland & Millot, 1941 – Guinea, Niger
• Thyene coccineovittata (Simon, 1886) – Mali, Senegal, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Uganda, Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa. Introduced to France, Brazil
• Thyene concinna (Keyserling, 1881) – Australia (Queensland)
• Thyene corcula (Pavesi, 1895) – Ethiopia
• Thyene coronata Simon, 1902 – Southern Africa
• Thyene dakarensis (Berland & Millot, 1941) – Senegal
• Thyene dancala Caporiacco, 1947 – Ethiopia
• Thyene decora (Simon, 1902) – Australia (Queensland)
• Thyene gangoides Prószyński & Deeleman-Reinhold, 2010 – Bali
• Thyene hemmingi (Caporiacco, 1949) – Kenya
• Thyene hesperia (Simon, 1909) – Guinea, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria
• Thyene imperialis (Rossi, 1846) – Southern Europe, North, West and East Africa, Middle East to Central Asia and China, Pakistan, India, Indonesia (type species)
• Thyene inflata (Gerstaecker, 1873) – Sub-Saharan Africa, Madagascar
• Thyene leighi G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1903 – Kenya, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, South Africa
• Thyene longula (Simon, 1902) – Australia (Queensland)
• Thyene manipisa (Barrion & Litsinger, 1995) – Philippines
• Thyene masindi Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024 – Guinea, Uganda
• Thyene mutica (Simon, 1902) – West, Central Africa, Uganda, Southern Africa
• Thyene natali G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1903 – Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Eswatini
• Thyene nigriceps (Caporiacco, 1949) – Kenya
• Thyene ocellata (Thorell, 1899) – Guinea, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Uganda, Mozambique
• Thyene ogdeni G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1903 – Guinea, Tanzania, Mozambique, South Africa
  • T. o. nyukiensis Lessert, 1925 – East Africa
• Thyene orbicularis (Gerstaecker, 1873) – East Africa
• Thyene orientalis Żabka, 1985 – Japan, China, Vietnam
• Thyene ornata Wesołowska & Tomasiewicz, 2008 – Ethiopia
• Thyene perfecta Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024 – Uganda
• Thyene phragmitigrada Metzner, 1999 – Spain, Greece
• Thyene poecila (Caporiacco, 1949) – Kenya
• Thyene punctiventer (Karsch, 1879) – Gabon
• Thyene roeweri Haddad, Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024 – Mozambique
• Thyene rubricoronata (Strand, 1911) – Indonesia (Kei Is.)
• Thyene semiargentea (Simon, 1884) – Sudan, Uganda, Tanzania, South Africa
• Thyene sexplagiata (Simon, 1909) – São Tomé and Príncipe
• Thyene similis Wesołowska & van Harten, 2002 – Yemen (Socotra)
• Thyene splendida Caporiacco, 1939 – Ethiopia
• Thyene striatipes (Caporiacco, 1939) – East Africa
• Thyene subsplendens Caporiacco, 1947 – Eritrea
• Thyene tamatavi (Vinson, 1863) – Madagascar
• Thyene thyenioides (Lessert, 1925) – Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, South Africa
• Thyene triangula Xie & Peng, 1995 – China
• Thyene typica Jastrzebski, 2006 – Nepal
• Thyene varians G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1901 – Madagascar
• Thyene verdieri (Berland & Millot, 1941) – Guinea, Uganda
• Thyene villiersi Berland & Millot, 1941 – Ivory Coast
• Thyene vittata Simon, 1902 – Ethiopia, South Africa
• Thyene volombavatanany Murray, Escobar-Toledo & Pett, 2024 – Madagascar
• Thyene xingrenensis C. Wang, Mi & Peng, 2023 – China
• Thyene yuxiensis Xie & Peng, 1995 – Nepal, China
• Thyene zhangi (Peng, Yin, Yan & Kim, 1998) – China