Thyenula Simon, 1902

Zhang, Jun-Xia & Maddison, Wayne P., 2012, New euophryine jumping spiders from Southeast Asia and Africa (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryinae), Zootaxa 3581, pp. 53-80 : 74

Genus Thyenula Simon, 1902

Description. Medium sized spiders. Body usually brown or dark brown with light colored markings on dorsum of abdomen. Some species with a relatively sclerotized area on dorsal abdomen in male. Embolus of male palp narrow or wide, long and coiled; proximal tegular lobe present; retrolateral sperm duct loop occupying more than half of bulb width. Epigynal window present with a median septum. Spermatheca oval or kidney-shaped.

Remarks. Of the ten described species ( Platnick 2012), six are reported from South Africa ( Prószyński 1987; Wesolowska 1993; Wesolowska 2001; Wesolowska & Haddad 2009), three are from Zimbabwe ( Wesolowska 2000; Wesolowska & Cumming 2008), and one is from Egypt ( Platnick 2012). Three new species from South Africa are described here.