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Colonus (spider)

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Subphylum
  
Chelicerata

Infraorder
  
Araneomorphae

Scientific name
  
Colonus

Rank
  
Genus

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Araneae

Family
  
Salticidae

Higher classification
  
Jumping spider

Colonus (spider)

Similar
  
Thiodina, Cotinusa, Metacyrba, Anasaitis, Sassacus

Colonus is a genus of spiders in the Salticidae family (jumping spiders). Colonus species are endemic to North and South America, ranging from New York to Argentina. All members of the genus have two pairs of bulbous spines on the ventral side of the first tibiae. The function of these spines is unknown. Colonus was declared a junior synonym of Thiodina by Eugène Simon in 1903, but this was reversed by Bustamante, Maddison, and Ruiz in 2015.

Species

As of November 2015, the World Spider Catalog accepted 14 species of Colonus:

  • Colonus branicki (Taczanowski, 1871) – Venezuela, Guyana, French Guiana
  • Colonus candidus (Mello-Leitão, 1922) – Brazil
  • Colonus germaini (Simon, 1900) – Brazil, Argentina
  • Colonus hesperus (Richman & Vetter, 2004) – United States, Mexico
  • Colonus melanogaster (Mello-Leitão, 1917) – Brazil
  • Colonus pallidus (C. L. Koch, 1846) – Colombia to Argentina
  • Colonus pseustes (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1936) – Panama, French Guiana
  • Colonus puerperus (Hentz, 1846) – eastern United States
  • Colonus punctulatus (Mello-Leitão, 1917) – Brazil
  • Colonus rishwani (Makhan, 2006) – Suriname
  • Colonus robustus (Mello-Leitão, 1945) – Argentina
  • Colonus sylvanus (Hentz, 1846) – United States to Panama
  • Colonus vaccula (Simon, 1900) – Peru, Brazil
  • Colonus vellardi (Soares & Camargo, 1948) – Brazil

    • References

    Colonus (spider) Wikipedia
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