(previously Thiodina puerpera)
While most of our typical jumping spiders are members of groups restricted largely to North America, others like our three Colonus species are members of a primarily neotropical genus. Colonus puerperus is a grassland spider of the southeastern 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 suggests, inhabits woodlands. The range of the third species, C. hesperus, includes the southwestern states.
Bustamante, Maddison, and Ruiz, 2015