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

Tomis palpalis F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:036254

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Described:

Distribution: Mexico, Paraguay, Argentina

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

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Taxonomic References

Tomis palpalis F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901a: 296, pl. 29, f. 1 (Dm) Original description

Tomis jonesae Bryant, 1948a: 71, f. 17 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:065215]

Tomis jonesi Roewer, 1955c: 1252 (lapsus)

Sitticus palpalis Galiano, 1991a: 61, f. 1-5, 8, 10-16 (m, Df, S of Tomis jonesae)

Sitticus palpalis Prószyński, 2017a: 42, f. 2L (mf)

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

Tomis palpalis Pett, Rubio & Stolar, 2021: 927, f. 6J-K (m)

References

Bryant, E. B. (1948a). Some spiders from Acapulco, Mexico. Psyche, Cambridge 55(2): 55-77. doi: 10.1155/1948/45193 -- 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

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 -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, F. O. (1901a). Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London, 2, pp. 193-312, pl. 15-30. [[for the exact dates see Lyal, 2011]] -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (2017a). Revision of the genus Sitticus Simon, 1901 s. l. (Araneae: Salticidae). Ecologica Montenegrina 10: 35-50. doi: 10.37828/em.2017.10.7 -- Show included taxa

Roewer, C. F. (1955c). Katalog der Araneae von 1758 bis 1940, bzw. 1954. 2. Band, Abt. a (Lycosaeformia, Dionycha [excl. Salticiformia]). 2. Band, Abt. b (Salticiformia, Cribellata) (Synonyma-Verzeichnis, Gesamtindex). Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, Bruxelles, 1751 pp. -- 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
2021-07-05	New taxonomic reference entry	Pett, Rubio & Stolar, 2021
2021-07-05	Species distribution update	Pett, Rubio & Stolar, 2021	Old value
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
2017-04-11	New taxonomic reference entry	Prószyński, 2017a