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title: "Sylvan Jumping Spider"
description: "Colonus sylvanus — Insecten en spinnen. Colonus sylvanus, or the sylvan jumping spider, is a species of jumping spider."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/sylvan-jumping-spider
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Sylvan Jumping Spider

> Colonus sylvanus — Insecten en spinnen. Colonus sylvanus, or the sylvan jumping spider, is a species of jumping spider.

- Scientific name: *Colonus sylvanus*
- Category: `insects` (Insecten en spinnen)
- Habitats: `forest` (Bos)
- iNaturalist observations: 12307
- Wikidata: [Q27504521](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27504521)
- iNaturalist taxon: [486456](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/486456)

## Names

- en: Sylvan Jumping Spider
- es: Araña saltarina de dos líneas

## Countries with the most observations

US (6538), MX (851), CR (251), HN (115), NI (86), PA (69), GT (55), BZ (29), SV (29), EC (23)

## Summary

Colonus sylvanus, or the sylvan jumping spider, is a species of jumping spider. It is found in a range from the United States to Panama. It was first described by entomologist Nicholas Marcellus Hentz in 1846 based on specimens from South Carolina.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonus_sylvanus

## Photo

![Sylvan Jumping Spider](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/sylvan-jumping-spider/medium.jpg)

Photo: Mirko Schoenitz · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/27520664

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/sylvan-jumping-spider?lang=nl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).