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Genus: Pachomius G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1896 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Pachomius similis G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1896

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035419

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Described:

Distribution: Trinidad

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

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Taxonomic References

Pachomius similis Peckham & Peckham, 1896: 83 (Df) Original description

Phiale similis Petrunkevitch, 1911: 693

Pachomius similis Edwards, 2015: 51 (T from Phiale)

References

Edwards, G. B. (2015). Freyinae, a major new subfamily of Neotropical jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae). Zootaxa 4036(1): 1-87. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4036.1.1 -- Show included taxa

Peckham, G. W. & Peckham, E. G. (1896). Spiders of the family Attidae from Central America and Mexico. Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin 3: 1-101, pl. 1-7. -- Show included taxa

Petrunkevitch, A. (1911). A synonymic index-catalogue of spiders of North, Central and South America with all adjacent islands, Greenland, Bermuda, West Indies, Terra del Fuego, Galapagos, etc. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 29: 1-791. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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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	Old value	Comment
2015-11-13	New taxonomic reference entry	Edwards, 2015
2015-11-13	Species transferred to new genus	Edwards, 2015		Species transferred from Phiale to Pachomius