Biology:Pachomius (spider)

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Pachomius
Kaldari Pachomius male 02.jpg
Adult male Pachomius from Belize
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Pachomius
Peckham & Peckham, 1896[1]
Type species
P. dybowskii
(Taczanowski, 1871)
Species

20, see text

Synonyms[1]
  • Aculeobreda Caporiacco, 1955[2]
  • Romitia Caporiacco, 1947[3]
  • Uspachus Galiano, 1995[3]

Pachomius is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by George and Elizabeth Peckham in 1896.[4] Uspachia was merged into genus Romitia in 2007, and all nine species were merged into Pachomius in 2015. The name is derived from Pachomius, the founder of cenobitic monasticism.

Species

(As of August 2019) it contains twenty species, found in South America, Panama, Guatemala, Mexico, and on Trinidad:[1]

  • Pachomius albipalpis (Taczanowski, 1878) – Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia
  • Pachomius andinus (Taczanowski, 1878) – Peru
  • Pachomius bahiensis (Galiano, 1995)Brazil
  • Pachomius bilobatus (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901) – Guatemala, Panama, Venezuela
  • Pachomius colombianus (Galiano, 1995) – Panama, Colombia
  • Pachomius dybowskii (Taczanowski, 1871) (type) – Mexico to Ecuador, Brazil
  • Pachomius flavescens Peckham & Peckham, 1896 – Panama
  • Pachomius hadzji (Caporiacco, 1955) – Venezuela
  • Pachomius hieroglyphicus (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901) – Mexico
  • Pachomius juquiaensis (Galiano, 1995) – Brazil
  • Pachomius lehmanni (Strand, 1908) – Colombia
  • Pachomius ministerialis (C. L. Koch, 1846) – Panama, Colombia, Venezuela
  • Pachomius misionensis (Galiano, 1995) – Paraguay, Argentina
  • Pachomius nigrus (Caporiacco, 1947) – Guyana, French Guiana
  • Pachomius niveoguttatus (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901) – Panama
  • Pachomius patellaris (Galiano, 1995) – Bolivia, Brazil
  • Pachomius peckhamorum Galiano, 1994 – Panama
  • Pachomius sextus Galiano, 1994 – Venezuela, Brazil, French Guiana
  • Pachomius similis Peckham & Peckham, 1896 – Trinidad
  • Pachomius villeta Galiano, 1994 – Colombia, Venezuela

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). Gen. Pachomius Peckham & Peckham, 1896. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2837. Retrieved 2019-09-08. 
  2. Ruiz, G. R. S.; Brescovit, A. D. (2005). "Notes on the Venezuelan jumping spiders described by Caporiacco (Araneae, Salticidae)". Revista Brasileira de Zoologia 22 (3): 754. doi:10.1590/S0101-81752005000300036. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 Edwards, G. B. (2015). "Freyinae, a major new subfamily of Neotropical jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae)". Zootaxa 4036 (1): 51. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4036.1.1. PMID 26624463. 
  4. Peckham, G. W.; Peckham, E. G. (1896). "Spiders of the family Attidae from Central America and Mexico". Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin 3: 1–101. 

External links

  • Pachomius at Salticidae: Diagnostic Drawings Library

Wikidata ☰ Q238000 entry