''Orientattus'' is a genus of Asian jumping spiders erected by John Caleb in 2020. It is placed in the tribe Plexippini, within the

Salticoida Salticoida is an unranked clade of the jumping spider family Salticidae. It is the larger and more widespread of the two subdivisions of the "typical" jumping spiders (subfamily Salticinae), occurring effectively world-wide. Its sister clade is ...

clade of

Salticinae Salticinae is a subfamily of jumping spiders (family Salticidae). It includes over 90% of the known species of jumping spiders. The subfamily is divided into two unranked clades: Amycoida and Salticoida. Description Members of the subfamily Sa ...

. In 2018 and 2019, a species found in Sri Lanka and India was placed in the otherwise African genus ''

Schenkelia ''Schenkelia'' is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by R. de Lessert in 1927. Species it contains four species, found only in Africa. *'' Schenkelia benoiti'' Wanless & Clark, 1975 – Ivory Coast *'' Schenkelia ibadanensis'' ...

'' under the name "''Schenkelia aurantia''", however, this species differed significantly from the type species of the genus ''Schenkelia''. Three other species, placed in different genera, were found to resemble ''Schenkelia aurantia'', and these were all combined to create the genus, ''Orientattus''. Compared to related genera, ''Orientattus'' species are distinguished by features of both the male and female genitalia. The male palpal bulb is rounded with a short curved embolus and is borne on a pedipalp with a bifurcated retrolateral tibial apophysis (RTA). Females have C-shaped copulatory openings, no copulatory ducts and double-chambered spermathecae with a large anterior chamber and a smaller posterior chamber. There are also two large 'pockets' on the sides of the posterior border of the

epigyne The epigyne or epigynum is the external genital structure of female spiders. As the epigyne varies greatly in form in different species, even in closely related ones, it often provides the most distinctive characteristic for recognizing species. ...

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it contains four species: *'' O. aurantius'' (Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2018) (

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) – India, Sri Lanka *'' O. bicuspidatus'' (Peng & Li, 2003) – Vietnam *'' O. hongkong'' (Song, Xie, Zhu & Wu, 1997) – China (Hong Kong) *'' O. minutus'' ( Żabka, 1985) – China, Nepal, Vietnam

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