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 [1] |
Type species | |
Attus sylvanus Hentz, 1846
[1]
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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]
As of November 2015 [update], the World Spider Catalog accepted 14 species of Colonus: [1]
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 [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]
As of November 2015 [update], the World Spider Catalog accepted 14 species of Colonus: [1]