Pachomius (spider)

Pachomius
Adult male Pachomius from Belize
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Family:	Salticidae
Subfamily:	Aelurillinae
Genus:	Pachomius Peckham & Peckham, 1896
Type species
Pachomius dybowskii Taczanowski, 1871
Species
see text
Diversity
19 species

Pachomius is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders).

Name

Pachomius (ca. 292-348) is generally recognized as the founder of cenobitic monasticism.

Species

As of July 2017, the World Spider Catalog lists the following species in the genus:^[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) – 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 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
• Pachomius similis Peckham & Peckham, 1896 – Trinidad
• Pachomius villeta Galiano, 1994 – Colombia, Venezuela

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Pachomius.

• Pachomius at Salticidae: Diagnostic Drawings Library