Rhene rubrigera Simon, 1889

Caleb, John T. D., Sanap, Rajesh V., Tripathi, Rishikesh, Sampathkumar, M., Dharmaraj, Jayaraman & Packiam, Soosaimanickam Maria, 2022, Taxonomic notes on some South and Southeast Asian members of the genus Rhene Thorell, 1869 (Aranei, Salticidae, Dendryphantini), Zootaxa 5125 (4), pp. 389-407 : 402-403

Rhene rubrigera Simon, 1889

Figs 57–64 , 72

Homalattus rubriger Thorell, 1887: 347 (D ♂).

Rhene rubigera Żabka, 1985: 444 , figs 544–562 (♂ ♀).

Rhene rubrigera Sen et al., 2015: 30 , figs 67–71, pl. 12 (♀).

Material. INDIA: Karnataka; 1 ♀, Bhairapura (13.01956°N, 75.57277°E), 983 m a.s.l., 06.03.2021, leg. A.P.C. Abhijith & P. Ramachandra ; Kerala: 1 ♀ (RTC), Wayanad, Valad (11.8046°N, 75.9253°E), 800 m a.s.l., 18.10.2021, leg. A. Jose ; Uttarakhand: 1 ♀ (RTC), Dehradun (30.28313°N, 77.97427°E), 598 m a.s.l., 15.07.2017, leg. R. Tripathi ; West Bengal: 1 ♂ (NZC-ZSI 6859/18), Tardaha (22.4591°N, 88.5218°E), 7 m a.s.l., 26.04.2019, leg. K. Valarmathi & party.

Distribution. India (Karnataka, Kerala, Nicobar Islands, Uttarakhand, West Bengal (Caleb, 2019; 2020; present data) to Vietnam, China, Taiwan, Indonesia (Sumatra) ( WSC, 2022) ( Fig. 72 ).

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FIGURE 72. Type localities (solid black) and distributional records (solid white) of Rhene species studied in this work.

FIGURES 57–64. Somatic morphology and copulatory organs of Rhene rubrigera (Thorell, 1887), male from West Bengal (57–60) and female from Uttarakhand (61–64): 57—male habitus, dorsal view; 58—ditto, front view; 59—left palp, ventral view; 60—ditto, retrolateral view; 61—female habitus, dorsal view; 62—ditto, front view; 63—epigyne, ventral view; 64—vulva, dorsal view. Scale bars: (63, 64) 0.1 mm, (59, 60) 0.2 mm, (62) 1 mm, (57, 58, 61) 2 mm.