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Genus: Tomis F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Tomis canus Galiano, 1977

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:036212

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Described:

Distribution: Peru

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales (MACN) “Bernardino Rivadavia”, Buenos Aires, Argentina m (7018) - (Galiano & Maury, 1979)
Paratype: Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales (MACN) “Bernardino Rivadavia”, Buenos Aires, Argentina 6m 4f (7019, 7020) - (Galiano & Maury, 1979)

Taxonomic References

Tomis canus Galiano, 1977b: 78, f. 1-6, 11-12 (Dmf) Original description

Sitticus canus Galiano, 1991a: 67, f. 7, 9 (f)

Tomis canus W. Maddison in Maddison et al., 2020a: 27 (T from Sitticus)

References

Galiano, M. E. (1977b). Fauna desertico-costera peruana.-II. Dos nuevas especies de Salticidae (Araneae) de los tillandsiales de Lima. Revista Peruana de Entomología Agricola 20: 77-80. -- Show included taxa

Galiano, M. E. (1991a). Las especies de Sitticus Simon del grupo palpalis (Araneae, Salticidae). Acta Zoológica Lilloana 40: 59-68. -- Show included taxa

Maddison, W. P., Maddison, D. R., Derkarabetian, S. & Hedin, M. (2020a). Sitticine jumping spiders: phylogeny, classification, and chromosomes (Araneae, Salticidae, Sitticini). ZooKeys 925: 1-54. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.925.39691 -- 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
2020-04-10	New taxonomic reference entry	Maddison et al., 2020a
2020-04-10	Species transferred to new genus	Maddison et al., 2020a		Species transferred from Sitticus to Tomis