Pachomius (spider) explained
Pachomius is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by George and Elizabeth Peckham in 1896.[1] 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
it contains twenty species, found in South America, Panama, Guatemala, Mexico, and on Trinidad:[2]
- 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
External links
- Pachomius at Salticidae: Diagnostic Drawings Library
Notes and References
- 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. 1–101. 3. George and Elizabeth Peckham. George and Elizabeth Peckham.
- Gen. Pachomius Peckham & Peckham, 1896. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-09-08. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2. Gloor. Daniel. Nentwig. Wolfgang. Blick. Theo. Kropf. Christian.
