''Tomis'' is a
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus com ...
of South American
jumping spiders
Jumping spiders are a group of spiders that constitute the family Salticidae. As of 2019, this family contained over 600 described genera and over 6,000 described species, making it the largest family of spiders at 13% of all species. Jumping spi ...
that was first described by
F.O. Pickard-Cambridge in 1901.
[ The genus ''Pseudattulus'', erected by ]Lodovico di Caporiacco
Ludovico di Caporiacco (22 January 1900, in Udine – 18 July 1951, in Parma) was an Italian arachnologist.
Caporiacco took part in an expedition to the Jebel Uweinat, a mountain massif in the boundary region of Sudan, Libya, and Egypt. On the mi ...
in 1947,synonymy
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in 2020 when ''Tomis'' was re-separated from ''Sitticus'' (now '' Attulus'').[
]
Species
, the World Spider Catalog
The World Spider Catalog (WSC) is an online searchable database concerned with spider taxonomy. It aims to list all accepted families, genera and species, as well as provide access to the related taxonomic literature. The WSC began as a series of ...
accepted the following extant species:[
*'' Tomis beieri'' (Caporiacco, 1955) (syn. ''Pseudattulus beieri'') – Venezuela
*'' Tomis canus'' Galiano, 1977 (syn. ''Sitticus canus'') – Peru
*'' Tomis kratochvili'' (Caporiacco, 1947) (syn. ''Pseudattulus kratochvili'') – Venezuela, Guyana
*'' Tomis manabita'' W. Maddison, 2020 – Ecuador
*'' Tomis mazorcanus'' (Chamberlin, 1920) (syn. ''Sitticus mazorcanus'') – Peru
*'' Tomis mona'' (Bryant, 1947) – Puerto Rico
*'' Tomis palpalis'' F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901 (]type species
In zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specimen ...
) (syn. ''Sitticus palpalis'') – Mexico, Argentina
*'' Tomis pavidus'' (Bryant, 1942) – Virgin Is.
*'' Tomis phaleratus'' (Galiano & Baert, 1990) (syn. ''Sitticus phaleratus'') – Ecuador (Galapagos Is.)
*'' Tomis pintanus'' (Edwards & Baert, 2018) (syn. ''Sitticus pintanus'') – Ecuador (Galapagos Is.)
*'' Tomis tenebricus'' (Galiano & Baert, 1990) (syn. ''Sitticus tenebricus'') – Ecuador (Galapagos Is.)
*'' Tomis trisetosus'' (Edwards & Baert, 2018) (syn. ''Sitticus trisetosus'') – Ecuador (Galapagos Is.)
*'' Tomis uber'' (Galiano & Baert, 1990) (syn. ''Sitticus uber'') – Ecuador (Galapagos Is.)
*'' Tomis vanvolsemorum'' (Baert, 2011) (syn. ''Sitticus vanvolsemorum'') – Ecuador (Galapagos Is.)
*'' Tomis welchi'' (Gertsch & Mulaik, 1936) (syn. ''Sitticus welchi'') – United States
References
Salticidae
Salticidae genera
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