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]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Sparassidae |
| Genus: | Rhitymna Simon[1] |
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Species
editAs 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
edit- ^ 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.