Colonus (spider)
Genus of spiders
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Colonus is a genus of spiders in the jumping spider family, Salticidae. Colonus species are endemic to North and South America, ranging from New York to Argentina.[2] 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.[2] Colonus was declared a junior synonym of Thiodina by Eugène Simon in 1903, but this was reversed by Bustamante, Maddison, and Ruiz in 2015.[3]
| Colonus | |
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| Female Colonus puerperus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Salticinae |
| Genus: | Colonus F.O.P.-Cambridge, 1901[1] |
| Type species | |
| Attus sylvanus Hentz, 1846[1] | |
| Species | |
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| Diversity[1] | |
| 14 species | |
Species
As of November 2015[update], the World Spider Catalog accepted 14 species of Colonus:[1]
- 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
