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Colonus
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.
16 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Sylvan Jumping Spider
speciesColonus sylvanus
Colonus hesperus
speciesColonus hesperus
Colonus puerperus
speciesColonus puerperus
Colonus pallidus
speciesColonus pallidus
Colonus germaini
speciesColonus germaini
Colonus alineae
speciesColonus alineae
Colonus melanogaster
speciesColonus melanogaster
Colonus vaccula
speciesColonus vaccula
Colonus robustus
speciesColonus robustus
Colonus pseustes
speciesColonus pseustes
Colonus branicki
speciesColonus branicki
Colonus rishwani
speciesColonus rishwani
Colonus candidus
speciesColonus candidus
Colonus punctulatus
speciesColonus punctulatus
Colonus vellardi
speciesColonus vellardi
Colonus gracilis
speciesColonus gracilis
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 486451.