Taxon details

Family: Salticidae / Genus: Colonus

Colonus melanogaster (Mello-Leitão, 1917)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2023-09-13
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:036556]
  • Distribution: Brazil, Paraguay
Type deposit provide information
  • Syntype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019); 2m (01384, 13891; destroyed by the fire 2018) (Mello-Leitão, 1917c)
Taxonomic references
Thiodina melanogaster Mello-Leitão, 1917c: 132, f. 4 (Dm).
Colonus melanogaster Bustamante, Maddison & Ruiz, 2015: 187 (T from Thiodina).
Colonus melanogaster Pett, Rubio & Stolar, 2021: 926, f. 6D-G (m).
Colonus melanogaster Rubio et al., 2023a: 8, f. 8-9, 11, 13 (Df).
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

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1917c). Aranhas novas ou pouco conhecidas de Thomisidas e Salticidas brasileiras. Archivos da Escola Superior de Agricultura e Medicina Veterinaria, Rio de Janeiro 1: 117-153, 2 pl. 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., Stolar, C. E., Baigorria, J. E. M. & Baptista, R. L. C. (2023a). Description of two new species of jumping spider Colonus F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901 (Araneae: Salticidae) from Brazil and Argentina. Faunitaxys 11(58): 1-10. doi:10.57800/faunitaxys-11(58) 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.

Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2023-09-13 New taxonomic reference entry Rubio et al., 2023a n/a
2023-09-13 First description of female Rubio et al., 2023a 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)
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