Rhene

{{Short description|Genus of jumping spiders}}

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|image_caption = Male Rhene flavicomans from Hong Kong

|taxon = Rhene

|authority = Thorell, 1869

|type_species = Rhanis flavigera

|type_species_authority = C. L. Koch, 1846

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|diversity = 59 species

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Rhene is a spider genus of the family Salticidae (jumping spiders).

Taxonomy

The genus was originally named Rhanis by C. L. Koch in 1846. However, this name had already been used for a beetle genus in 1834. Accordingly, Tamerlan Thorell provided the replacement name Rhene in 1869.{{cite book|title=On European Spiders, Part 1: Review of the European Genera of Spiders, Preceded by Some Observations on Zoological Nomenclature|first=Tamerlan|last=Thorell|year=1869|page=37}} The name Rhene is derived from the Greek woman's name Rhene ({{lang|grc|Ῥήνη}}).

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{{As of|2025|05}}, the World Spider Catalog accepted the following extant species:

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References

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{{cite web |title=Gen. Rhene Thorell, 1869 |work=World Spider Catalog |publisher=Natural History Museum Bern |url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2926 |accessdate=2025-05-16}}

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