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Genus: Tomis F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Tomis kratochvili (Caporiacco, 1947)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035763

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Described:

Distribution: Venezuela, Guyana

External Resources*: Jumping Spiders of the World Metzner (2026) | Salticidae Database Prószyński (2025) | GBIF

Type Repository Provide information

Lectotype: Museo Zoologico di Storia Naturale "La Specola", Università degli Studi di Firenze (MZUF), Florence, Italy m (598) - (Berdondini & Whitman, 2003)
Paralectotype: Museo Zoologico di Storia Naturale "La Specola", Università degli Studi di Firenze (MZUF), Florence, Italy 2m 1f (598) - (Berdondini & Whitman, 2003)

Taxonomic References

Pseudattulus kratochvili Caporiacco, 1947a: 34 (Dmf) Original description

Pseudattulus kratochvili Caporiacco, 1948a: 729, f. 162-163 (mf)

Pseudattulus incertus Caporiacco, 1955: 446, f. 82 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035762]

Sitticus cabellensis Prószyński, 1971b: 198, f. 31-39 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:049406]

Pseudattulus incertus Ruiz & Brescovit, 2005b: 756 (S of Sitticus cabellensis, rejected by Prószyński, 2017a: 48, confirmed by W. Maddison, in Maddison et al., 2020a: 36)

Pseudattulus kratochvili Ruiz, Brescovit & Lise, 2007: 377, f. 1-5 (m, S of Pseudattulus incertus)

Sittisax cabellensis Prószyński, 2017a: 48, f. 2C (f, T from Sitticus, removed from S of Pseudattulus kratochvili, rejecting Ruiz & Brescovit, 2005b: 756; S confirmed by W. Maddison, in Maddison et al., 2020a: 36)

Pseudattulus kratochvili Prószyński, 2017a: 48, f. 2D (m)

Pseudattulus kratochvili Prószyński, 2017b: 69, f. 31T (m)

Tomis kratochvili W. Maddison in Maddison et al., 2020a: 36 (T from Pseudattulus, S of Pseudattulus/Sittisax cabellensis confirmed)

References

Caporiacco, L. di (1947a). Diagnosi preliminari de specie nuove di aracnidi della Guiana Brittanica raccolte dai professori Beccari e Romiti. Monitore Zoologico Italiano 56: 20-34. -- Show included taxa

Caporiacco, L. di (1948a). Arachnida of British Guiana collected in 1931 and 1936 by Professors Beccari and Romiti. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 118(3): 607-747. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1948.tb00402.x -- Show included taxa

Caporiacco, L. di (1955). Estudios sobre los aracnidos de Venezuela. 2a parte: Araneae. Acta Biologica Venezuelica 1: 265-448. -- Show included taxa

Maddison, W. P., Maddison, D. R., Derkarabetian, S. & Hedin, M. (2020a). Sitticine jumping spiders: phylogeny, classification, and chromosomes (Araneae, Salticidae, Sitticini). ZooKeys 925: 1-54. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.925.39691 -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (1971b). Revision of the spider genus Sitticus Simon, 1901 (Aranei, Salticidae). II. Sitticus saxicola (C. L. Koch, 1848) and related forms. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 28: 183-204. -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (2017a). Revision of the genus Sitticus Simon, 1901 s. l. (Araneae: Salticidae). Ecologica Montenegrina 10: 35-50. doi: 10.37828/em.2017.10.7 -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (2017b). Pragmatic classification of the world's Salticidae (Araneae). Ecologica Montenegrina 12: 1-133. doi: 10.37828/em.2017.12.1 -- Show included taxa

Ruiz, G. R. S. & Brescovit, A. D. (2005b). Notes on the Venezuelan jumping spiders described by Caporiacco (Araneae, Salticidae). Revista Brasileira de Zoologia 22: 753-760. -- Show included taxa

Ruiz, G. R. S., Brescovit, A. D. & Lise, A. A. (2007). On the taxonomy of some neotropical species of jumping spiders described by Caporiacco (Araneae, Salticidae). Revista Brasileira de Zoologia 24: 376-381. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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As External Resources, the World Spider Catalog links here to species pages of other databases. They may contain further information for the given species. The databases, listed as External Resources, however, are not managed by World Spider Catalog and the information given there is not necessarily in agreement with the World Spider Catalog. All responsibility for such data is with the external database.

Metzner, H. (2026). Jumping spiders (Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae) of the world. Online at https://www.jumping-spiders.com.

Prószyński, J. (2025). Salticidae (Araneae) Genera of the World "a management tool for developing a new system of Salticidae" - a scrollable e-Textbook. Version December 20th, 2025, online at http://www.salticidae.pl.

GBIF.org (2026). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [8 January 2026]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Comment
2020-04-10	New taxonomic reference entry	Maddison et al., 2020a
2020-04-10	Species synonymy	Maddison et al., 2020a	Tomis cabellensis synonymized with Tomis kratochvili
2020-04-10	Species transferred to new genus	Maddison et al., 2020a	Species transferred from Pseudattulus to Tomis
2017-09-20	New taxonomic reference entry	Prószyński, 2017b
2017-04-11	New taxonomic reference entry	Prószyński, 2017a