Thyene Simon 1885

GenusThyeneSimon, 1885 Diagnosis. Medium-sized spiders, with flattened body. Cephalothorax wide, rounded, abdomen narrower. Leg I hairy, considerably stouter and longer than rest. Characteristic tufts of long black bristles near anterior lateral eyes forming ‘ horns’. Structure of genital organs very similar in all members of the genus. Male palp with rounded tegulum twice surrounded by embolus and with single thin tibial apophysis. Species difficult to identify; easier to distinguish by the coloration, especially abdominal pattern, than genital organ structure. The genus includes more than 40 species, the majority distributed in Africa (Wesołowska 2006).