Rhondes

{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Rhondes

| authority = Simon, 1901

| type_species = R. neocaledonicus

| type_species_authority = (Simon, 1889)

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = 6, see text

}}

Rhondes is a genus of New Caledonian jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1901.{{cite book| last=Simon| first=E| year=1901| title=Histoire naturelle des araignées| publisher=Roret | publication-place=Paris| doi=10.5962/bhl.title.51973| author-link=Eugène Simon}} It was briefly considered a synonym of Hasarius,{{cite journal| last=Żabka| first=M.| year=1988| title=Salticidae (Araneae) of Oriental, Australian and Pacific regions, III| journal=Annales Zoologici, Warszawa| volume=41| page=423| author-link=Marek Michał Żabka}} but was revalidated after the results of a 2008 molecular study. It is now grouped with several other Australasian genera in the unranked clade Astioida.{{cite journal| last1=Maddison| first1=W. P.| last2=Bodner| first2=M. R.| last3=Needham| first3=K. M.| year=2008| title=Salticid spider phylogeny revisited, with the discovery of a large Australasian clade (Araneae: Salticidae)| journal=Zootaxa| volume=1893| page=55| doi=10.11646/zootaxa.1893.1.3| author-link=Wayne Maddison}}