Genus of spiders
Thyenula is a genus of African jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1902.[ 4]
Species
As of August 2019[update] it contains twenty-four species, found only in Africa:[ 1]
Thyenula alotama Wesolowska , Azarkina & Russell-Smith, 2014 – South Africa
Thyenula ammonis Denis, 1947 – Egypt
Thyenula arcana (Wesolowska & Cumming, 2008) – Zimbabwe
Thyenula armata Wesolowska, 2001 – South Africa, Lesotho
Thyenula aurantiaca (Simon, 1902) – South Africa
Thyenula cheliceroides Wesolowska, Azarkina & Russell-Smith, 2014 – South Africa
Thyenula clarosignata Wesolowska, Azarkina & Russell-Smith, 2014 – South Africa
Thyenula dentatidens Wesolowska, Azarkina & Russell-Smith, 2014 – South Africa
Thyenula fidelis Wesolowska & Haddad, 2009 – South Africa
Thyenula haddadi Wesolowska, Azarkina & Russell-Smith, 2014 – South Africa
Thyenula juvenca Simon, 1902 (type ) – South Africa
Thyenula leighi (Peckham & Peckham, 1903) – South Africa
Thyenula magna Wesolowska & Haddad, 2009 – South Africa
Thyenula montana Wesolowska, Azarkina & Russell-Smith, 2014 – Lesotho
Thyenula munda (Peckham & Peckham, 1903) – Zimbabwe
Thyenula natalica (Simon, 1902) – South Africa
Thyenula oranjensis Wesolowska, 2001 – South Africa
Thyenula rufa Wesolowska, Azarkina & Russell-Smith, 2014 – South Africa
Thyenula sempiterna Wesolowska, 2000 – Zimbabwe, South Africa
Thyenula splendens Wesołowska & Haddad, 2018 – South Africa
Thyenula tenebrica Wesolowska, Azarkina & Russell-Smith, 2014 – South Africa
Thyenula virgulata Wesolowska, Azarkina & Russell-Smith, 2014 – South Africa
Thyenula vulnifica Wesolowska, Azarkina & Russell-Smith, 2014 – South Africa
Thyenula wesolowskae Zhang & Maddison , 2012 – South Africa
References
^ a b c "Gen. Thyenula Simon, 1902" . World Spider Catalog Version 20.0 . Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi :10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-09-27 .
^ Wesolowska, W. (2012). "Redescriptions of some salticid species (Araneae: Salticidae) from South Africa and Zimbabwe described by G. and E. Peckham". African Entomology . 20 (2): 337. doi :10.4001/003.020.0223 . S2CID 86450271 .
^ Wesolowska, W. (1993). "On the genus Tularosa Peckham et Peckham, 1903 (Araneae, Salticidae)". Genus . 4 : 33.
^ Simon, E. (1902). "Description d'arachnides nouveaux de la famille des Salticidae (Attidae) (suite)". Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique . 46 : 363– 406.