Rhene
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Rhene is a spider
genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders). The genus was originally named Rhanis. Tamerlan Thorell
renamed it Rhene in 1869 so that it would not be confused with a beetle
genus that was also named Rhanis. The name Rhene is derived from the Greek proper name Rhene (Ρήνη).
Spider
Spiders are air-breathing arthropods that have eight legs, and chelicerae with fangs that inject venom. They are the largest order of arachnids and rank seventh in total species diversity among all other groups of organisms...
genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders). The genus was originally named Rhanis. Tamerlan Thorell
Tamerlan Thorell
Tord Tamerlan Teodor Thorell was a Swedish arachnologist.Thorell studied spiders with Giacomo Doria at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale de Genoa...
renamed it Rhene in 1869 so that it would not be confused with a beetle
Beetle
Coleoptera is an order of insects commonly called beetles. The word "coleoptera" is from the Greek , koleos, "sheath"; and , pteron, "wing", thus "sheathed wing". Coleoptera contains more species than any other order, constituting almost 25% of all known life-forms...
genus that was also named Rhanis. The name Rhene is derived from the Greek proper name Rhene (Ρήνη).
Species
- Rhene albigera (C. L. Koch, 1846) — IndiaIndiaIndia , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
to KoreaKoreaKorea ) is an East Asian geographic region that is currently divided into two separate sovereign states — North Korea and South Korea. Located on the Korean Peninsula, Korea is bordered by the People's Republic of China to the northwest, Russia to the northeast, and is separated from Japan to the...
, SumatraSumatraSumatra is an island in western Indonesia, westernmost of the Sunda Islands. It is the largest island entirely in Indonesia , and the sixth largest island in the world at 473,481 km2 with a population of 50,365,538... - Rhene atrata (KarschFriedrich KarschFerdinand Karsch or Karsch-Haack was a German arachnologist, entomologist and anthropologist....
, 1881) — RussiaRussiaRussia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
, ChinaChinaChinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...
, Korea, TaiwanTaiwanTaiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...
, JapanJapanJapan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south... - Rhene banksi Peckham & PeckhamGeorge and Elizabeth PeckhamGeorge Williams Peckham and Elizabeth Maria Gifford Peckham were early American teachers, taxonomists, ethologists, arachnologists, and entomologists, specializing in animal behavior and in the study of jumping spiders and wasps.-Lives and careers:George Peckham was born in Albany,...
, 1902 — South AfricaSouth AfricaThe Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans... - Rhene biembolusa Song & Chai, 1991 — China
- Rhene biguttata Peckham & Peckham, 1903 — South Africa
- Rhene brevipes (Thorell, 1891) — Sumatra
- Rhene bufo (DoleschallCarl Ludwig DoleschallCarl Ludwig Doleschall was born in Nové Mesto nad Váhom , Slovakia , as the son of the theologian Michael Doleschall, and died in Ambon Island, Moluccas, only 31 years old...
, 1859) — MyanmarMyanmarBurma , officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar , is a country in Southeast Asia. Burma is bordered by China on the northeast, Laos on the east, Thailand on the southeast, Bangladesh on the west, India on the northwest, the Bay of Bengal to the southwest, and the Andaman Sea on the south....
to Sumatra - Rhene callida Peckham & Peckham, 1895 — IndiaIndiaIndia , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
- Rhene callosa (Peckham & Peckham, 1895) — India
- Rhene cancer Wesolowska & Cumming, 2008 — Zimbabwe
- Rhene candida Fox, 1937 — China
- Rhene capensis StrandEmbrik StrandEmbrik Strand was an arachnologist who classified many insect and spider species, including the greenbottle blue tarantula....
, 1909 — South Africa - Rhene citri Sadana, 1991 — India
- Rhene cooperi Lessert, 1925 — South Africa
- Rhene curta Wesolowska & Tomasiewicz, 2008 — Ethiopia
- Rhene daitarensis Prószyński, 1992 — India
- Rhene danieli Tikader, 1973 — India
- Rhene darjeelingiana Prószyński, 1992 — India
- Rhene decorata Tikader, 1977 — India
- Rhene digitata Peng & Li, 2008 — China
- Rhene facilis Wesolowska & Russell-Smith, 2000 — TanzaniaTanzaniaThe United Republic of Tanzania is a country in East Africa bordered by Kenya and Uganda to the north, Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west, and Zambia, Malawi, and Mozambique to the south. The country's eastern borders lie on the Indian Ocean.Tanzania is a state...
- Rhene flavicomans SimonEugène SimonEugène Simon was a French arachnologist. His many taxonomic contributions include categorizing and naming many spiders, as well as creating genera such as Anelosimus, Psellocoptus and Phlogius....
, 1902 — India, BhutanBhutanBhutan , officially the Kingdom of Bhutan, is a landlocked state in South Asia, located at the eastern end of the Himalayas and bordered to the south, east and west by the Republic of India and to the north by the People's Republic of China...
, Sri LankaSri LankaSri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is a country off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent. Known until 1972 as Ceylon , Sri Lanka is an island surrounded by the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait, and lies in the vicinity of India and the... - Rhene flavigera (C. L. Koch, 1846) — China, VietnamVietnamVietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...
to Sumatra - Rhene foai Simon, 1902 — South Africa
- Rhene formosa Rollard & Wesolowska, 2002 — GuineaGuineaGuinea , officially the Republic of Guinea , is a country in West Africa. Formerly known as French Guinea , it is today sometimes called Guinea-Conakry to distinguish it from its neighbour Guinea-Bissau. Guinea is divided into eight administrative regions and subdivided into thirty-three prefectures...
- Rhene habahumpa Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 — PhilippinesPhilippinesThe Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...
- Rhene haldanei Gajbe, 2004 — India
- Rhene hinlalakea Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 — Philippines
- Rhene hirsuta (Thorell, 1877) — Sulawesi
- Rhene indica Tikader, 1973 — India, Andaman IslandsAndaman IslandsThe Andaman Islands are a group of Indian Ocean archipelagic islands in the Bay of Bengal between India to the west, and Burma , to the north and east...
, China - Rhene ipis Fox, 1937 — China
- Rhene jelskii (TaczanowskiWladyslaw TaczanowskiWładysław Taczanowski was a Polish zoologist.-Life:A member of an old noble magnate family from the Poznań region, Taczanowski is considered one of the most important European zoologists of the nineteenth century...
, 1871) — PeruPeruPeru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....
, GuianaGuianaThe Guiana Shield is one of the three cratons of the South American Plate. It is a 1.7 billion year old Precambrian geological formation in northeast South America that forms a portion of the northern coast. The higher elevations on the shield are called the Guiana Highlands, which is where the... - Rhene khandalaensis Tikader, 1977 — India
- Rhene lesserti BerlandLucien BerlandLucien Berland was a French entomologist and an arachnologist- Partial list of publications :* 1925 : Faune de France...
& Millot, 1941 — SenegalSenegalSenegal , officially the Republic of Senegal , is a country in western Africa. It owes its name to the Sénégal River that borders it to the east and north... - Rhene leucomelas (Thorell, 1891) — Philippines
- Rhene machadoi Berland & Millot, 1941 — Guinea
- Rhene margarops (Thorell, 1877) — Sulawesi
- Rhene modesta Caporiacco, 1941 — EthiopiaEthiopiaEthiopia , officially known as the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a country located in the Horn of Africa. It is the second-most populous nation in Africa, with over 82 million inhabitants, and the tenth-largest by area, occupying 1,100,000 km2...
- Rhene mordax (Thorell, 1890) — JavaJavaJava is an island of Indonesia. With a population of 135 million , it is the world's most populous island, and one of the most densely populated regions in the world. It is home to 60% of Indonesia's population. The Indonesian capital city, Jakarta, is in west Java...
- Rhene mus (Simon, 1889) — India
- Rhene myunghwani Kim, 1996 — Korea
- Rhene nigrita (C. L. Koch, 1846) — IndonesiaIndonesiaIndonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...
- Rhene obscura Wesolowska & van Harten, 2007 Yemen
- Rhene pantharae Biswas & Biswas, 1992 — India
- Rhene parvula Caporiacco, 1939 — Ethiopia
- Rhene phuntsholingensis Jastrzebski, 1997 — Bhutan, NepalNepalNepal , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked sovereign state located in South Asia. It is located in the Himalayas and bordered to the north by the People's Republic of China, and to the south, east, and west by the Republic of India...
- Rhene plana (Schenkel, 1936) — China
- Rhene rubrigera (Thorell, 1887) — India to China, Sumatra, Hawai'i
- Rhene saeva (Giebel, 1863) — Java
- Rhene sanghrakshiti Gajbe, 2004 — India
- Rhene setipes Zabka, 1985 — China, Vietnam, Ryūkyū IslandsRyukyu IslandsThe , also known as the , is a chain of islands in the western Pacific, on the eastern limit of the East China Sea and to the southwest of the island of Kyushu in Japan. From about 1829 until the mid 20th century, they were alternately called Luchu, Loochoo, or Lewchew, akin to the Mandarin...
- Rhene spuridens Strand, 1907 — Java
- Rhene sulfurea (Simon, 1885) — Senegal
- Rhene triapophyses Peng, 1995 — China