Colonus (spider)

Genus of spiders

Colonus

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

See text.

Diversity[1]
14 species

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]

## Species

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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

## References

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1. ^ a b c d "Gen. Colonus F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2015-11-30.
2. ^ a b Richman, David B.; Richard S. Vetter (2004). "A Review of the Spider Genus Thiodina (Araneae, Salticidae) in the United States". The Journal of Arachnology. 32 (3): 418–431\. doi:10.1636/H03-45. S2CID 84978604.
3. ^ Bustamante, Abel A.; Maddison, Wayne P.; Ruiz, Gustavo R. S. (September 2, 2015). "The jumping spider genus Thiodina Simon, 1900 reinterpreted, and revalidation of Colonus F.O.P-Cambridge, 1901 and Nilakantha Peckham & Peckham, 1901 (Araneae: Salticidae: Amycoida)". Zootaxa. 4012 (1): 181–90\. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4012.1.10. PMID 26623852.

## External links

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Colonus (genus).

### Videos

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* David Edwin Hill: Male Colonus sylvanus feeding on Oxyopes salticus — Video 220 Mb
* David Edwin Hill: Movement of the articulated pretarsal claws and footpads by a walking jumping spider, Colonus sylvanus — Video 218 Mb
* David Edwin Hill: Colonus sylvanus feeding on Leucauge venusta — Video
* David Edwin Hill: Colonus sylvanus walking and turning slowly — Video

### Pictures

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* Picture of C. puerperus
* Pictures of C. sylvanus

Taxon identifiers

Colonus|

* Wikidata: Q22285888
* Wikispecies: Colonus
* BOLD: 756308
* BugGuide: 1975
* CoL: 3SHX
* GBIF: 2168939
* iNaturalist: 486451
* IRMNG: 1427157
* ITIS: 1119055
* NCBI: 1766260
* Open Tree of Life: 4700636
* Plazi: A96A879F-FFF4-D91A-FF76-D425FB67FDAA
* WSC: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:04286