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

Colonus vaccula (Simon, 1900)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:036566

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Described:

Distribution: Peru, Brazil, Argentina

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

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 -

Taxonomic References

Thiodina vaccula Simon, 1900b: 392 (Dm; vaccula is a Latin noun in apposition) Original description

Thiodina vaccula Simon, 1901a: 455, f. 526-527 (m)

Thiodina vaccula Galiano, 1963a: 459, pl. XL, f. 1-2 (m)

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

Colonus vaccula Rubio & Baigorria, 2016: 272, f. 3k-m, 5f-h (m ,Df)

Colonus vaccula Rubio, Baigorria & Scioscia, 2018: 90, f. 50, 51A-B, 52 (mf)

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. (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

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

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

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
2025-08-16	New taxonomic reference entry	Rubio, Baigorria & Scioscia, 2018
2016-10-07	New taxonomic reference entry	Rubio & Baigorria, 2016
2016-10-07	First description of female	Rubio & Baigorria, 2016	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