Rhitymna

Rhitymna
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Sparassidae
Genus:	Rhitymna; Simon
Species
	21, see text

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]

Species

As of 2022^[update], Rhitymna comprises 21 species:^[1]

Rhitymna ambae Jäger, 2003 - Indonesia (Java)
Rhitymna bicolana (Barrion & Litsinger, 1995) - Philippines
Rhitymna cursor (Thorell, 1894) - Singapore, Indonesia (Java)
Rhitymna deelemanae Jäger, 2003 - Indonesia (Bali, Sumba)
Rhitymna flava Schmidt & Krause, 1994 - Comoros
Rhitymna flores Jäger, 2019 - Indonesia (Flores)
Rhitymna gerdmangel Jäger, 2019 - Thailand, Malaysia
Rhitymna imerinensis (Vinson, 1863) - Madagascar
Rhitymna kananggar Jäger, 2003 - Indonesia (Sumba)
Rhitymna macilenta Quan & Liu, 2012 - China (Hainan)
Rhitymna merianae Jäger, 2019 - Indonesia (Bali)
Rhitymna occidentalis Jäger, 2003 - Sri Lanka
Rhitymna pinangensis (Thorell, 1891) - Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia (Sumatra, Borneo, Java)
Rhitymna plana Jäger, 2003 - Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia
Rhitymna pseudokumanga (Barrion & Litsinger, 1995) - Philippines
Rhitymna senckenbergi Jäger, 2019 - Philippines (Negros)
Rhitymna simplex Jäger, 2003 - Malaysia (Borneo)
Rhitymna tangi Quan & Liu, 2012 - China (Hainan), Laos
Rhitymna tuhodnigra (Barrion & Litsinger, 1995) - Philippines
Rhitymna verruca (Wang, 1991) - China, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand
Rhitymna xanthopus Simon, 1901 - Malaysia

References

^ a b "Sparassidae". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-02-26.
^ 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.
^ Jäger, P. (2019). "Review of the huntsman spider genus Rhitymna Simon, 1897 (Araneae: Sparassidae)". Zootaxa. 4560 (3): 441–462. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4560.3.2. PMID 31716566. S2CID 92025422.

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[NMBE-1] "Sparassidae". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-02-26.

[simon-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.

[jager2019-3] Jäger, P. (2019). "Review of the huntsman spider genus Rhitymna Simon, 1897 (Araneae: Sparassidae)". Zootaxa. 4560 (3): 441–462. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4560.3.2. PMID 31716566. S2CID 92025422.