| Colonus | |
|---|---|
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| Female Colonus puerperus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Salticinae |
| Genus: | Colonus F.O.P.-Cambridge, 1901 [1] |
| Type species | |
| Attus sylvanus Hentz, 1846 [1] | |
| Species | |
See text. | |
| Diversity [1] | |
| 14 species | |
Colonus is a genus of spiders in the jumping spider family, Salticidae. Colonus species are endemic to North and South America, ranging from New York to Argentina. [2] All members of the genus have two pairs of bulbous spines on the ventral side of the first tibiae. The function of these spines is unknown. [2] Colonus was declared a junior synonym of Thiodina by Eugène Simon in 1903, but this was reversed by Bustamante, Maddison, and Ruiz in 2015. [3]
