Rhitymna

Rhitymna is a genus of huntsman spiders described in 1897 by Eugène Simon.[2] Members of this genus can be distinguished by a number of characteristics, but it is most often confused with Olios species, many of which also have the Y-shaped pattern on the dorsal opisthosoma.[3]

Rhitymna
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Sparassidae
Genus: Rhitymna
Simon[1]
Species

23, see text

Species

As of 2019, Rhitymna comprises 23 species:[1]

  • Rhitymna ambae Jäger, 2003
  • Rhitymna bicolana (Barrion & Litsinger, 1995)
  • Rhitymna cursor (Thorell, 1894)
  • Rhitymna deelemanae Jäger, 2003
  • Rhitymna flava Schmidt & Krause, 1994
  • Rhitymna flores Jäger, 2019
  • Rhitymna gerdmangel Jäger, 2019
  • Rhitymna hildebrandti Järvi, 1914
  • Rhitymna imerinensis (Vinson, 1863)
  • Rhitymna kananggar Jäger, 2003
  • Rhitymna macilenta Quan & Liu, 2012
  • Rhitymna merianae Jäger, 2019
  • Rhitymna occidentalis Jäger, 2003
  • Rhitymna pinangensis (Thorell, 1891)
  • Rhitymna plana Jäger, 2003
  • Rhitymna pseudokumanga (Barrion & Litsinger, 1995)
  • Rhitymna saccata Järvi, 1914
  • Rhitymna senckenbergi Jäger, 2019
  • Rhitymna simplex Jäger, 2003
  • Rhitymna tangi Quan & Liu, 2012
  • Rhitymna tuhodnigra (Barrion & Litsinger, 1995)
  • Rhitymna verruca (Wang, 1991)
  • Rhitymna xanthopus Simon, 1901

References
  1. "Sparassidae". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-02-26.
  2. Simon, E. (1897). "Etudes arachnologiques. 27e Mémoire. XLII. Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles de l'ordre des Araneae". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 65: 465–510.
  3. Jäger, P. (2019). "Review of the huntsman spider genus Rhitymna Simon, 1897 (Araneae: Sparassidae)". Zootaxa. 4560 (3): 441–462.


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