Pachomius (spider)

This article is about a genus of spiders. For other uses, see Pachomius (disambiguation).

Pachomius
Adult male Pachomius from Belize
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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]

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]

References

  1. ^ a b c Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Pachomius Peckham & Peckham, 1896". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. 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. ^ a b 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.
  • Pachomius at Salticidae: Diagnostic Drawings Library


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