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.
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Scientific classification 
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| 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)
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Species
editAs of August 2019[update] 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
edit- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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
edit- Pachomius at Salticidae: Diagnostic Drawings Library
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