Colonus germaini (Simon, 1900)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:036554

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Described:

Distribution: Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina


Type Repository Provide information
  • It is widely assumed that most of the type material from Simon can be found in the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris, France -
  • Holotype: Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales (MACN) “Bernardino Rivadavia”, Buenos Aires, Argentina m (4960) of Thiodina schiapelliae - (Galiano & Maury, 1979)
  • Allotype: Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales (MACN) “Bernardino Rivadavia”, Buenos Aires, Argentina f (4961) of Thiodina schiapelliae - (Galiano & Maury, 1979)
  • Paratype: Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales (MACN) “Bernardino Rivadavia”, Buenos Aires, Argentina 3m 1f (4962-4964) of Thiodina schiapelliae - (Galiano & Maury, 1979)
Taxonomic References
Thiodina germaini Simon, 1900b: 392 (Dm) Original description
Thiodina schiapelliae Galiano, 1957: 57, f. A-C (Dmf)  [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:059154]
Thiodina germaini Galiano, 1963a: 458, pl. XL, f. 3-4 (mf, S of Thiodina schiapelliae)
Colonus germaini Bustamante, Maddison & Ruiz, 2015: 187 (T from Thiodina)
Colonus germaini Rubio & Baigorria, 2016: 271, f. 3a-c, 5a-b (mf)
Colonus germaini Rubio, Baigorria & Scioscia, 2018: 84, f. 44A-C (mf)
Colonus germaini Pett, Rubio & Stolar, 2021: 926, f. 6A-C (m)
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

Galiano, M. E. (1957). Una nueva especie del género Thiodina Simon, 1900 (Araneae, Salticidae). Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina 19: 57-61. -- Show included taxa

Galiano, M. E. (1963a). Las especies americanas de arañas de la familia Salticidae descriptas por Eugène Simon. Redescripciones basadas en los ejemplares típicos. Physis, Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Ciencias Naturales (C) 23(68): 273-470. -- 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. & Baigorria, J. E. M. (2016). New species and the first known male of the jumping spider Ceriomura Simon (Araneae: Salticidae: Gophoini) with the faunistic revision of gophoines from Misiones, Argentina. Zoology and Ecology 26(4): 265-274. doi: 10.1080/21658005.2016.1199502 -- Show included taxa

Rubio, G. D., Baigorria, J. E. M. & Scioscia, C. L. (2018). Arañas saltícidas de Misiones. Guía para la identificación (tribus basales). Ediciones Fundación Azara, Universidad Maimónides, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, 208 pp. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1900b). Descriptions d'arachnides nouveaux de la famille des Attidae. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 44: 381-407. -- 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
2025-08-16 New taxonomic reference entry Rubio, Baigorria & Scioscia, 2018
2023-07-19 Species distribution update Courtial et al., 2023 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
2016-10-07 New taxonomic reference entry Rubio & Baigorria, 2016
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

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