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

Colonus melanogaster Mello-Leitão, 1917

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Described:

Distribution: Brazil, Paraguay

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Syntype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019) 2m (01384, 13891; destroyed by the fire 2018) - (Mello-Leitão, 1917c)

Taxonomic References

Thiodina melanogaster Mello-Leitão, 1917c: 132, f. 4 (Dm) Original description

Colonus melanogaster Bustamante, Maddison & Ruiz, 2015: 187 (T from Thiodina)

Colonus melanogaster Pett, Rubio & Stolar, 2021: 926, f. 6D-G (m)

Colonus melanogaster Rubio et al., 2023a: 8, f. 8-9, 11, 13 (Df)

References

Bustamante, A. A., Maddison, W. P. & Ruiz, G. R. S. (2015). The jumping spider genus Thiodina Simon, 1900 reinterpreted, and revalidation of Colonus F.O.P-Cambridge, 1901 and Nilakantha Peckham & Peckham, 1901 (Araneae: Salticidae: Amycoida). Zootaxa 4012(1): 181-190. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4012.1.10 -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1917c). Aranhas novas ou pouco conhecidas de Thomisidas e Salticidas brasileiras. Archivos da Escola Superior de Agricultura e Medicina Veterinaria, Rio de Janeiro 1: 117-153, 2 pl. -- 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

Rubio, G. D., Stolar, C. E., Baigorria, J. E. M. & Baptista, R. L. C. (2023a). Description of two new species of jumping spider Colonus F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901 (Araneae: Salticidae) from Brazil and Argentina. Faunitaxys 11(58): 1-10. doi: 10.57800/faunitaxys-11(58) -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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GBIF.org (2019). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [1 September 2019]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2023-09-13	New taxonomic reference entry	Rubio et al., 2023a
2023-09-13	First description of female	Rubio et al., 2023a	Old value
2021-07-05	New taxonomic reference entry	Pett, Rubio & Stolar, 2021
2021-07-05	Species distribution update	Pett, Rubio & Stolar, 2021	Old value
2015-09-09	New taxonomic reference entry	Bustamante, Maddison & Ruiz, 2015
2015-09-09	Species transferred to new genus	Bustamante, Maddison & Ruiz, 2015		Species transferred from Thiodina to Colonus