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

Colonus rishwani (Makhan, 2006)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:040894

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Described:

Distribution: Suriname

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: National Zoological Collection of Suriname, University of Suriname, Paramaribo, Suriname m - (Makhan, 2006a)

Taxonomic References

Thiodina rishwani Makhan, 2006a: 10, f. 1-3 (Dm) Original description

Colonus rishwani 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

Makhan, D. (2006a). Rishaschia gen. nov. and new species of Salticidae from Suriname (Araneae). Calodema 5: 9-18. -- 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
2026-02-23	Type repository inserted	Makhan, 2006a
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