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

Pachomius colombianus (Galiano, 1995)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:036724

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Described:

Distribution: Panama, Colombia

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

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Taxonomic References

Uspachus colombianus Galiano, 1995b: 137, f. 11, 39, 41-42 (Dmf) Original description

Romitia colombiana Ruiz, Brescovit & Lise, 2007: 378 (T from Uspachus)

Pachomius colombianus Edwards, 2015: 4, 51 (T from Romitia)

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

Galiano, M. E. (1995b). Descripción de Uspachus, nuevo género (Araneae, Salticidae). Physis, Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Ciencias Naturales, Sección C 50: 121-142. -- 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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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	Species updated	Edwards, 2015	Old value	Species epithet corrected
2015-11-13	Transferred to other genus after syn. gen	Edwards, 2015		Species transferred from Romitia to Pachomius after genus synonymy