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Salticidae Rhene

Rhene flavigera (C. L. Koch, 1846)

Bold Cross Flat-headed Jumper

Male R. flavigera has a distinctive bold cross or winged abdominal pattern which makes recognition unmistakable. The female may be recognised by the thick paired moustache-like markings on the posterior half of the abdomen.

Length♀ 5–7 mm; ♂ 4–7 mm
Type LocalityBintang, Riau, Indonesia
DistributionSingapore, Malaysia (Peninsular Malaysia, Sabah), Indonesia (Riau, West Sumatra), Brunei, Vietnam, China.
HabitatPrimary and secondary forests.

Taxonomy

Type Deposits*

  1. Holotype

    Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019); ♂ (1830)

  2. Holotype

    National Zoological Collections, Zoological Survey of India (NZC-ZSI), Kolkata, India; ♂ of Rhene danieli (Caleb et al., 2022a)

  3. Holotype

    National Zoological Collections, Zoological Survey of India (NZC-ZSI), Kolkata, India; ♀ of Rhene indica (Caleb et al., 2022a)

  4. Holotype

    National Zoological Collections, Zoological Survey of India (NZC-ZSI), Kolkata, India; ♀ (not found) of Rhene khandalaensis (Caleb et al., 2022a)

  5. Holotype

    National Zoological Collections, Zoological Survey of India (NZC-ZSI), Kolkata, India; ♂ (not found) of Rhene citri (Caleb et al., 2022a)

  6. Holotype

    National Zoological Collections, Zoological Survey of India (NZC-ZSI), Kolkata, India; ♀ of Rhene sanghrakshiti (Caleb et al., 2022a)

  7. Paratype

    National Zoological Collections, Zoological Survey of India (NZC-ZSI), Kolkata, India; 2♀ of Rhene indica (Caleb et al., 2022a)

  8. Paratype

    National Zoological Collections, Zoological Survey of India (NZC-ZSI), Kolkata, India; 3♂ 4♀ (not found) of Rhene citri (Caleb et al., 2022a)

  9. Allotype

    National Zoological Collections, Zoological Survey of India (NZC-ZSI), Kolkata, India; ♂ of Rhene indica (Caleb et al., 2022a)

Taxonomic references*

  1. Rhanis flavigera (Original description ♂)

    C. L. Koch, 1846 Die Arachniden: 14: 86, f. 1340 doi:10.5962/bhl.title.43744

  2. Rhene flavigera

    Thorell, 1869 On European spiders: 37

  3. Rhene indicus (Original description ♂♀)

    Tikader, 1973c Studies on some jumping spiders from India (family: Salticidae): 68, f. 1-4

  4. Rhene khandalaensis (Original description ♀)

    Tikader, 1977b Description of two new species of jumping-spider of the genus Rhene (family: Salticidae) from India: 274, f. 1-3

  5. Rhene indicus (♂♀)

    Tikader & Biswas, 1981 Spider fauna of Calcutta and vicinity: Part-I: 102, f. 185-187

  6. Rhene indica

    Brignoli, 1983c A catalogue of the Araneae described between 1940 and 1981: 653

  7. Rhene flavigera (♂, D♀)

    Prószyński, 1984a Atlas rysunków diagnostycznych mniej znanych Salticidae (Araneae): 119-121

  8. Rhene flavigera (♀)

    Żabka, 1985 Systematic and zoogeographic study on the family Salticidae (Araneae) from Viet-Nam: 443, f. 541-543

  9. Rhene indicus (♀)

    Hu & Li, 1987b The spiders collected from the fields and the forests of Xizang Autonomous Region, China: 333, f. 50.1-3

  10. Zygoballus citri (Original description ♂♀)

    Sadana, 1991 A new species of the spider of the genus Zygoballus Peckhams, 1885 (Salticidae) from India: 73, f. 1-6

  11. Rhene flavigera (♀)

    Chen & Zhang, 1991 Fauna of Zhejiang: Araneida: 313, f. 333.1-3

  12. Rhene flavigera (♀)

    Peng et al., 1993 Salticids in China (Arachnida: Araneae): 201, f. 708-714

  13. Rhene flavigera (♂)

    Maddison, 1996 Pelegrina Franganillo and other jumping spiders formerly placed in the genus Metaphidippus (Araneae: Salticidae): 332, f. 52

  14. Rhene flavigera (♀)

    Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999 The spiders of China: 543, f. 314G-H

  15. Rhene indica (♀)

    Hu, 2001 Spiders in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau of China: 413, f. 263.1-3

  16. Rhene sanghrakshiti (Original description ♀)

    Gajbe, 2004d Spiders of Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh (Arachnida: Araneae): 137, f. 184-186

  17. Rhene citri (Transferred from Zygoballus)

    Kaldari, 2010 Reassignment of the Indian species of Zygoballus to Bianor and Rhene (Araneae: Salticidae): 3

  18. Rhene flavigera (♀)

    Yin et al., 2012 Fauna Hunan: Araneae in Hunan, China: 1462, f. 796a-h

  19. Rhene danieli (♂)

    Roy, Saha & Raychaudhuri, 2016 A treatise on the jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) of tea ecosystem of Dooars, West Bengal, India: 7, f. 4A-F, 24B, 26E-G

  20. Rhene flavigera (♂♀)

    Prószyński, 2017b Pragmatic classification of the world's Salticidae (Araneae): 94, f. 42U doi:10.37828/em.2017.12.1

  21. Rhene flavigera (♂♀)

    Fu, 2018 Linyphiidae, Phrurolithidae, Salticidae: 151, f. 25-22.A-G, pl. 32

  22. Rhene indica (♀)

    Peng, 2020 Fauna Sinica, Invertebrata 53, Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae: 390, f. 283a-b

  23. Rhene flavigera (♂♀, Synonym of Rhene citri, R. danieli, R. indica, R. khandalaensis and R. sanghrakshiti)

    Caleb et al., 2022a Taxonomic notes on some South and Southeast Asian members of the genus Rhene Thorell, 1869 (Aranei, Salticidae, Dendryphantini): 392, f. 5-10, 12-16, 18-24, 26-35 doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5125.4.3

* Retrieved from the World Spider Catalog.

Distribution Map for Rhene flavigera (C. L. Koch, 1846)

Singapore, Malaysia (Peninsular Malaysia, Sabah), Indonesia (Riau, West Sumatra), Brunei, Vietnam, China.

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