(previously Thiodina puerpera)
While most of our typical jumping spiders are members of groups restricted largely to North America, our three Colonus species are members of a primarily neotropical genus. Colonus puerperus is a grassland spider of the eastern United States. Most common in the Gulf Coast states, it ranges south to Argentina. Colonus sylvanus is found in many of the same areas as C. puerperus but, as its species epithet indicates, it inhabits woodlands. The range of the third species, C. hesperus, includes the southwestern states. Hill offers a detailed analysis of the “jumping behavior” of salticids including his observations of a male of the present species jumping ~38 its own length.

Bustamante, Maddison, and Ruiz, 2015
Hill, D.E. 2018.