Taxon details

Family: Salticidae / Genus: Colonus

Colonus germaini (Simon, 1900)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2023-07-19
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:036554]
  • Distribution: French Guiana, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina
Type deposit provide information
  • It is widely assumed that most of the type material from Simon can be found in the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris, France
  • Holotype: Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales (MACN) “Bernardino Rivadavia”, Buenos Aires, Argentina; m (4960) of Thiodina schiapelliae (Galiano & Maury, 1979)
  • Paratype: Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales (MACN) “Bernardino Rivadavia”, Buenos Aires, Argentina; 3m 1f (4962-4964) of Thiodina schiapelliae (Galiano & Maury, 1979)
  • Allotype: Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales (MACN) “Bernardino Rivadavia”, Buenos Aires, Argentina; f (4961) of Thiodina schiapelliae (Galiano & Maury, 1979)
Taxonomic references
Thiodina germaini Simon, 1900b: 392 (Dm).
Thiodina schiapelliae Galiano, 1957: 57, f. A-C (Dmf)  [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:059154].
Thiodina germaini Galiano, 1963a: 458, pl. XL, f. 3-4 (mf, S of Thiodina schiapelliae).
Colonus germaini Bustamante, Maddison & Ruiz, 2015: 187 (T from Thiodina).
Colonus germaini Rubio & Baigorria, 2016: 271, f. 3a-c, 5a-b (mf).
Colonus germaini Pett, Rubio & Stolar, 2021: 926, f. 6A-C (m).
References

Bustamante, A. A., Maddison, W. P. & Ruiz, G. R. S. (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): 181-190. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4012.1.10 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Galiano, M. E. (1957). Una nueva especie del género Thiodina Simon, 1900 (Araneae, Salticidae). Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina 19: 57-61. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Galiano, M. E. (1963a). Las especies americanas de arañas de la familia Salticidae descriptas por Eugène Simon: Redescripciones basadas en los ejemplares típicos. Physis, Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Ciencias Naturales (C) 23: 273-470. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pett, B. L., Rubio, G. D. & Stolar, C. E. (2021). A first baseline for the salticid (Araneae: Salticidae) fauna of Paraguay, with thirty-two new records and description of a new species from Paraguay and Argentina. Arachnology 18(8): 922-935. doi:10.13156/arac.2021.18.8.922 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Rubio, G. D. & Baigorria, J. E. M. (2016). New species and the first known male of the jumping spider Ceriomura Simon (Araneae: Salticidae: Gophoini) with the faunistic revision of gophoines from Misiones, Argentina. Zoology and Ecology 26(4): 265-274. doi:10.1080/21658005.2016.1199502 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1900b). Descriptions d'arachnides nouveaux de la famille des Attidae. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 44: 381-407. download pdf -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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GBIF.org (2019). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [1 September 2019]

Metzner, H. (2019). Jumping spiders (Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae) of the world. Online at https://www.jumping-spiders.com.

Prószyński, J. (2016). Monograph of Salticidae (Araneae) of the World 1995-2015. Part II. Global Species Database of Salticidae (Araneae). Version October 30th, 2016, online at http://www.salticidae.pl. download pdf

Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2023-07-19 Species distribution update Courtial et al., 2023 n/a (Old value)
2021-07-05 New taxonomic reference entry Pett, Rubio & Stolar, 2021 n/a
2021-07-05 Species distribution update Pett, Rubio & Stolar, 2021 n/a (Old value)
2016-10-07 New taxonomic reference entry Rubio & Baigorria, 2016 n/a
2015-09-09 New taxonomic reference entry Bustamante, Maddison & Ruiz, 2015 n/a
2015-09-09 Species transferred to new genus Bustamante, Maddison & Ruiz, 2015 Species transferred from Thiodina to Colonus