Colonus sylvanus (Hentz, 1846)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:036565

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Taxonomic References
Attus sylvanus Hentz, 1846: 364, pl. 22, f. 10 (Dmf; sylvanus is a Latin noun in apposition) Original description
Amycus flavolineatus C. L. Koch, 1846: 185, f. 1234 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032285]
Attus flavolineatus Walckenaer, 1847a: 428
Attus retiarius Hentz, 1850: 288, pl. 10, f. 11 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:059173]
Plexippus puerperus Peckham & Peckham, 1885b: 68, pl. 2, f. 5 (mf; misidentified per Peckham & Peckham, 1909: 449)
Plexippus puerperus Peckham & Peckham, 1888: 33, pl. 1, f. 23, pl. 2, f. 23, pl. 3, f. 23 (f; misidentified per Peckham & Peckham, 1909: 449)
Colonus puerperus F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901a: 246, pl. 21, f. 11-12 (mf; misidentified per Peckham & Peckham, 1909: 449)
Metaphidippus retiarius F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901a: 272
Thiodina puerpera Simon, 1901a: 457
Thiodina sylvana Peckham & Peckham, 1909: 449, pl. 35, f. 9-9e (mf, S of Metaphidippus retiarius)
Thiodina inquies Kraus, 1955b: 59, f. 169 (f; misidentified per Richman & Vetter, 2004: 421)
Thiodina sylvana Oehler, 1980: 12, f. 128-132 (mf)
Thiodina sylvana Breene et al., 1993: 64, f. 41A-C (mf)
Thiodina sylvana Richman & Vetter, 2004: 421, f. 2-3, 5-6, 9, 12 (mf)
Thiodina sylvana Hill, 2012: 1, f. 10 (f)
Colonus sylvanus Bustamante, Maddison & Ruiz, 2015: 187 (T from Thiodina)
Colonus sylvanus Prószyński, 2017b: 24, f. 7L, 10A-B (mf)
Colonus sylvanus Hill, 2018a: 6, f. 6, 8, 9.3-4, 10.2, 14-17, 25-27, 31-36, 38, 42-44, 47, 53, 55, 61-67, 68.1-4, 70, 78, 79.4, 80, 83, 89 (m [habitus], f)
Colonus sylvanus Courtial, Picard & Pétillon, 2026: 87 (S of Amycus flavolineatus)
References

Breene, R. G., Dean, D. A., Nyffeler, M. & Edwards, G. B. (1993). Biology, Predation Ecology, and Significance of Spiders in Texas Cotton Ecosystems with a Key to Species. Texas Agriculture Experiment Station College Station, 115 pp. -- Show included taxa

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

Courtial, C., Picard, L. & Pétillon, J. (2026). Premier catalogue des Salticidae (Arachnidae, Araneae) de Guyane et description d’une nouvelle espèce. Zoosystema 48(4): 75-120. doi: 10.5252/zoosystema2026v48a4 -- Show included taxa

Hentz, N. M. (1846). Descriptions and figures of the araneides of the United States. Boston Journal of Natural History 5(3): 352-370, pl. 21-22. -- Show included taxa

Hentz, N. M. (1850). Descriptions and figures of the araneides of the United States. Boston Journal of Natural History 6(1, 2): 18-35, 271-295, pl. 3-4, 9-10. -- Show included taxa

Hill, D. E. (2012). Notes on the jumping spiders Thiodina puerpera (Hentz 1846) and Thiodina sylvana (Hentz 1846) in the southeastern United States (Araneae: Salticidae). Peckhamia 99.1: 1-63. -- Show included taxa

Hill, D. E. (2018a). Notes on the jumping spiders Colonus puerperus (Hentz 1846) and Colonus sylvanus (Hentz 1846) in the southeastern United States (Araneae: Salticidae: Amycoida: Gophoini). Peckhamia 99.2: 1-63. -- Show included taxa

Koch, C. L. (1846). Die Arachniden. J. L. Lotzbeck, Nürnberg, Dreizehnter Band, pp. 1-234, pl. 433-468 (f. 1078-1271); Vierzehnter Band, pp. 1-88, pl. 467-480 (f. 1272-1342). doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.43744 [[for the correct year of publication see Brignoli, 1985b]] -- Show included taxa

Kraus, O. (1955b). Spinnen aus El Salvador (Arachnoidea, Araneae). Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 493: 1-112. -- Show included taxa

Oehler, C. M. (1980). Jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) in the Cincinnati region of Ohio, including Butler, Clermont, Hamilton, and Warren Counties. Ohio Biological Survey Notes 13: 1-36. -- Show included taxa

Peckham, G. W. & Peckham, E. G. (1885b). On some new genera and species of Attidae from the eastern part of Guatamala. Proceedings of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin 1885: 62-86, pl. 2. -- Show included taxa

Peckham, G. W. & Peckham, E. G. (1888). Attidae of North America. Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters 7: 1-104, pl. 1-6. -- Show included taxa

Peckham, G. W. & Peckham, E. G. (1909). Revision of the Attidae of North America. Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters 16(1, 5): 355-646, pl. 29-51. -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, F. O. (1901a). Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London, 2, pp. 193-312, pl. 15-30. [[for the exact dates see Lyal, 2011]] -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (2017b). Pragmatic classification of the world's Salticidae (Araneae). Ecologica Montenegrina 12: 1-133. doi: 10.37828/em.2017.12.1 -- Show included taxa

Richman, D. B. & Vetter, R. S. (2004). A review of the spider genus Thiodina (Araneae, Salticidae) in the United States. Journal of Arachnology 32(3): 418-431. doi: 10.1636/H03-45 -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1901a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome second. Roret, Paris, pp. 381-668. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.51973 [[last page with detailed publication dates of the single parts]] -- Show included taxa

Walckenaer, C. A. (1847a). Dernier Supplément. In: Walckenaer, C. A. & Gervais, P. (eds.) Histoire naturelles des Insects. Aptères. Tome quatrième. Roret, Paris, pp. 365-596 [Araneae: -564]. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.61095 -- 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
2026-03-04 New taxonomic reference entry Courtial, Picard & Pétillon, 2026
2018-04-06 New taxonomic reference entry Hill, 2018a
2017-09-11 New taxonomic reference entry Prószyński, 2017b
2015-09-09 Species updated Bustamante, Maddison & Ruiz, 2015 Old value Species epithet corrected
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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