Rhene tamula Karsch, 1879

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:051137

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Distribution: India, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam, China


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  • Holotype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany m (1836) - (Moritz & Fischer, 1983)
  • Holotype: Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IZCAS), Beijing, China m of Rhene biembolusa - (Caleb et al., 2022a)
  • Holotype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA f (20673) of Rhene callida - (Caleb, 2026)
  • Holotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France m (20308) of Rhene flavicomans - (Prószyński, 1984a)
Taxonomic References
Rhene tamula Karsch, 1879d: 554 (Dm) Original description
Rhene callida Peckham & Peckham, 1895a: 162, pl. 15, f. 4 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035889]
Rhene flavicomans Simon, 1902d: 33 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035899]
Rhene tamula Roewer, 1955c: 1643 (nicht zu deuten = nomen dubium)
Rhene flavicomans Prószyński, 1984a: 119-121 (m, Df)
Rhene biembolusa Song & Chai, 1991: 23, f. 14A-E (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035885]
Rhene biembolusa Peng, Xie & Kim, 1994: 32, f. 5-9 (m, Df)
Rhene flavicomans Jastrzebski, 1997b: 51, f. 9-11 (f)
Rhene biembolusa Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 543, f. 314E-F, M-N, 328E (mf)
Rhene danieli Roy, Saha & Raychaudhuri, 2016: 7, f. 4A-F, 24B, 26E-G (m, misidentified per Caleb, 2026: 90)
Rhene biembolusa Peng, 2020: 386, f. 280a-i (mf)
Rhene flavicomans Caleb et al., 2022a: 390, f. 1-4 (m, S of Rhene biembolusa)
Rhene flavicomans Herath & Benjamin, 2026: 15, f. 6A-D, 7A-G, 8A-E (mf)
Rhene tamula Caleb, 2026: 90, f. 1-7, 9-14 (mf, removed from nomen dubium, S of Rhene callida and R. flavicomans)
References

Caleb, J. T. D. (2026). Taxonomic notes on Rhene Thorell, 1869 and Simaetha Thorell, 1881 (Araneae: Salticidae) from India and Sri Lanka. Zootaxa 5874(1): 89-95. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5874.1.9 ZooBank: 7A2C9180-3F58-4CD6-8409-C509BDD32EA2 -- Show included taxa

Caleb, J. T. D., Sanap, R. V., Tripathi, R., Sampathkumar, M., Dharmara, J. & Packiam, S. M. (2022a). Taxonomic notes on some South and Southeast Asian members of the genus Rhene Thorell, 1869 (Aranei, Salticidae, Dendryphantini). Zootaxa 5125(4): 389-407. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5125.4.3 -- Show included taxa

Herath, T. & Benjamin, S. P. (2026). From oceans to mountains: global dispersal and local diversification in Rhene (Araneae: Salticidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 207(2, zlag095): 1-31. doi: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlag095 ZooBank: AD5584A3-91A9-4D1F-A546-55DEAC240250 -- Show included taxa

Jastrzębski, P. (1997b). Salticidae from the Himalayas. Genus Rhene Thorell, 1869 (Araneae: Salticidae). Entomologica Basiliensis 20: 45-56. -- Show included taxa

Karsch, F. (1879d). Arachnologische Beiträge. Zeitschrift für die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften 52: 534-562. -- Show included taxa

Peckham, G. W. & Peckham, E. G. (1895a). Spiders of the Homalattus group of the family Attidae. Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin 2(3): 159-183. -- Show included taxa

Peng, X. J. (2020). Fauna Sinica, Invertebrata 53, Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae. Science Press, Beijing, 612 pp. -- Show included taxa

Peng, X. J., Xie, L. P. & Kim, J. P. (1994). Descriptions of three species of genera Dendryphantes and Rhene from China (Araneae: Salticidae). Korean Arachnology 10: 31-36. -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (1984a). Atlas rysunków diagnostycznych mniej znanych Salticidae (Araneae). Zeszyty Naukowe Wyższej Szkoły Rolniczo-Pedagogicznej w Siedlcach 2: 1-177. -- Show included taxa

Roewer, C. F. (1955c). Katalog der Araneae von 1758 bis 1940, bzw. 1954. 2. Band, Abt. a (Lycosaeformia, Dionycha [excl. Salticiformia]). 2. Band, Abt. b (Salticiformia, Cribellata) (Synonyma-Verzeichnis, Gesamtindex). Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, Bruxelles, 1751 pp. -- Show included taxa

Roy, T. K., Saha, S. & Raychaudhuri, D. (2016). A treatise on the jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) of tea ecosystem of Dooars, West Bengal, India. World Scientific News 53(1): 1-66. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1902d). Description d'arachnides nouveaux de la famille des Salticidae (Attidae) (suite). Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 46: 24-56, 363-406. -- Show included taxa

Song, D. X. & Chai, J. Y. (1991). New species and new records of the family Salticidae from Hainan, China (Arachnida: Araneae). In: Qian, Y. W. et al. (ed.) Animal Science Research. China Forestry Publishing House, Beijing, pp. 13-30. -- Show included taxa

Song, D. X., Zhu, M. S. & Chen, J. (1999). The spiders of China. Hebei Science and Technology Publishing House, Shijiazhuang, 640 pp. -- 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.

Edit History
Date Type Reference Old value Comment
2026-08-28 Species distribution update Caleb, 2026 Old value
2026-08-28 New taxonomic reference entry Caleb, 2026
2026-08-28 Species updated Caleb, 2026 Old value

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