''Attinella'' is a
genus of North American
jumping spiders. It was first described by
Nathan Banks in 1905 based on the type species ''
Attinella dorsata'' (originally ''Attus dorsatus'').
it contains only three species: ''
A. concolor'', ''
A. dorsata'', and ''
A. juniperi''.
It was
synonymized with ''
Sitticus'' from 1979
to 2017, when the genus ''Sittiab'' was split from ''Sitticus'' by
Prószyński in 2017,
and ''Attinella'' was recognized as its
senior synonym.
Phylogeny
''Attinella'' is placed in the tribe Sitticini within the family
Salticidae. In 2020,
Wayne Maddison and co-workers divided the tribe Sitticini into two subtribes, Aillutticina and Sitticina. ''Attinella'' was placed in Sitticina, within a clade whose sister was the genus ''
Attulus
''Attulus'' is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1889. The name is a diminutive form of a common prefix for salticid genera, '.
Taxonomy
In 1889, Eugène Simon separated the genus ''Attulus'' from the ...
''. The relationship between these taxa is shown in the following cladogram.
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See also
* '' Sitticus''
* List of Salticidae genera
References
Further reading
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Sitticini
Salticidae genera
Spiders of North America
Taxa named by Nathan Banks
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