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Genus of spiders

Rhitymna
Scientific classification Edit this 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. 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.

Species

As of 2022, Rhitymna comprises 21 species:

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. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4560.3.2. PMID 31716566. S2CID 92025422.
Taxon identifiers
Rhitymna


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