Genus Thyene Simon, 1885

Museums

Regional Maps

• Thyene Simon, E. 1885. Matériaux pour servir à la faune arachnologiques de l'Asie méridionale. III. Arachnides recuellis en 1884 dans la presqu'île de Malacca, par M. J. Morgan. IV. Archnides recuellis à Collegal, district de Coimbatoore, par M. A. Theobald G. R. Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 10: 436-462 [replacement name; Thya SImon 1876].
• Thya Simon, E. 1876. Les arachnides de France. Paris Vol. 3 pp. 1-364. [51] [junior homonym; Thya Curtis 1834 (Trichoptera)].

  Type species:

   Attus imperialis Rossi, 1846 by original designation.
• Mithion Simon, E. 1884. Arachnides recueillis á Khartoum (Soudan égyptien) par M. Vossion, vice-consul de France et appurtenant au Muséum de Paris. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France 9: 1-28 [4].

  Type species:

   Mithion semiargentatus Simon, 1884 by monotypy.
• Gangus Simon, E. 1902. Etudes arachnologiques 32e Mémoire. LI. Description d'espèces nouvelles de la famille des Salticidae (suite). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 71: 389-421 [390].

  Type species:

   Acompse concinnus Keyserling, 1881 by original designation.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• ICZN 1991. Opinion 1625. Thyene Simon, 1885 (Arachnida, Araneae): given precedence over Mithion Simon, 1884. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 48: 69-70
• Proszynski, J. & Deeleman-Reinhold, C.L. 2010. Descriptions of some Salticidae (Araneae) from the Malay Archipelago. I. Salticidae of the Lesser Sunda Islands, with comments on related species. Arthropoda Selecta 19: 153-188 [183]

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, WA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Carnarvon (CAR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Jarrah Forest (JF), Northern Kimberley (NK), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL) ; ACT, NT, Qld, SA, WA: Central Mackay Coast (CMC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

Arthropod-feeder, carnivorous, predator.

General References

Maddison, W.P. 2015. A phylogenetic classification of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae). Journal of Arachnology 43: 231-292

Richardson, B.J., Whyte, R. & Zabka, M. 2019. A key to the genera of Australian jumping spiders (Aranaea: Salticidae). https://apps.lucidcentral.org/salticidae/

Richardson, B.J., Żabka, M., Gray, M.R. & Milledge, G. 2006. Distributional patterns of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) in Australia. Journal of Biogeography 33: 707-719 (Gives BIOCLIM predicted distribution of the genus, as Breda)

Whyte, R. & Anderson, G. 2017. A field guide to the spiders of Australia. Clayton : CSIRO Publishing pp.

History of changes