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Pachomius (spider)

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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

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

References

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  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.
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  • Pachomius at Salticidae: Diagnostic Drawings Library