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

Colonus branicki (Taczanowski, 1871)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:036550

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Described:

Distribution: Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Peru

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

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Syntype: Museum and Institute of Zoology (MIZ), Polish Academy of Science (PAN), Warsaw, Poland Attus branickii Taczanowski, 1871 - (Prószyński, 1971e)

Taxonomic References

Attus branickii Taczanowski, 1871: 94 (Dmf) Original description

Marpissa branickii Taczanowski, 1878a: 327

Attus branickii van Hasselt, 1888: 196

Thiodina branickii Caporiacco, 1948a: 705, f. 133 (f, removed from S of Thiodina pallida, rejecting Simon, 1901a: 457)

Thiodina branickii Caporiacco, 1954: 147, f. 46 (m)

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

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

Caporiacco, L. di (1948a). Arachnida of British Guiana collected in 1931 and 1936 by Professors Beccari and Romiti. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 118(3): 607-747. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1948.tb00402.x -- Show included taxa

Caporiacco, L. di (1954). Araignées de la Guyane Française du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris. Commentationes Pontificia Academia Scientiarum 16: 45-193. -- Show included taxa

Hasselt, A. W. M. van (1888). Araneae exoticae quas collegit, pro Museo Lugdunensi, Dr H. Ten Kate Jr. in Guyanâ Hollandicâ (Suriname). Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 31: 165-200. -- Show included taxa

Taczanowski, L. (1871). Les aranéides de la Guyane française. Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicae 8: 32-132, pl. 3-4. -- Show included taxa

Taczanowski, L. (1878a). Les Aranéides du Pérou. Famille des Attides. Bulletin de la Société Imperiale des Naturalists de Moscou 53: 278-374. -- 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
2026-02-23	Species distribution update	Courtial, Picard & Pétillon, 2026	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