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

Tomis phaleratus (Galiano & Baert, 1990)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:036259

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Described:

Distribution: Galapagos

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

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Taxonomic References

Sitticus phaleratus Galiano & Baert, 1990: 130, f. 3, 6-7, 12, 14, 17-18 (Dmf) Original description

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

Sitticus phaleratus Baert et al., 2023: 26, f. 88A-G (mf)

References

Baert, L., Maelfait, J.-P., Desender, K., Hendrickx, F., Dekoninck, W., Berthet, M., Bouckaert, K., Caudron, J. & Leclercq, M. (2023). Updated checklist, origin, distribution, literature and genital drawings of the spiders of the Galápagos Islands. Belgian Journal of Entomology 142: 1-188. [[includes figs of 5 undescribed species]] -- Show included taxa

Galiano, M. E. & Baert, L. (1990). Distribution of the Galápagoan salticid species with the description of three new Sitticus species (Araneae, Salticidae). Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique 60: 123-132. -- 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	Comment
2024-12-22	New taxonomic reference entry	Baert et al., 2023
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