| Colonus | |
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| Female Colonus puerperus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Salticinae |
| Genus: | Colonus F.O.P.-Cambridge, 1901 |
| Type species | |
| Attus sylvanus Hentz, 1846 | |
| Species | |
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See text. | |
| Diversity | |
| 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. 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
- ^ "Gen. Colonus F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2015-11-30.
- ^ 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.
- 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
Videos
- 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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| Colonus | |