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Colonus (spider)

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Colonus
Female Colonus puerperus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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[1]
Type species
Attus sylvanus
Hentz, 1846[1]
Species

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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, the World Spider Catalog accepted 14 species of Colonus:[1]

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.
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Videos

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

Pictures

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