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

Pachomius patellaris (Galiano, 1995)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:036728

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Described:

Distribution: Bolivia, Brazil

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019) Uspachus patellaris Galiano, 1995, (02190); 1 m (destroyed by the fire 2018) -
Paratype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019) Uspachus patellaris Galiano, 1995, (02191-02196, 15001); 9 m 5 f 2 j (destroyed by the fire 2018) -

Taxonomic References

Uspachus patellaris Galiano, 1995b: 140, f. 21, 25-29, 48, 51-52 (Dmf) Original description

Romitia patellaris Ruiz, Brescovit & Lise, 2007: 379 (T from Uspachus)

Pachomius patellaris Edwards, 2015: 51, f. 38Q-T (mf, 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	New taxonomic reference entry	Edwards, 2015
2015-11-13	Transferred to other genus after syn. gen	Edwards, 2015		Species transferred from Romitia to Pachomius after genus synonymy