Titanattus

Genus of spiders

Titanattus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Titanattus
Peckham & Peckham, 1885[1]
Type species
T. saevus
Peckham & Peckham, 1885
Species

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Synonyms[1]

Titanattus is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by George and Elizabeth Peckham in 1885.[3] The name is a combination of "Titan" and the common salticid suffix -attus. It was merged with Agelista in 2017.[2]

Species

As of 2021[update] it contains eleven species, found in Central America, Venezuela, Ecuador, Argentina, Paraguay, and Brazil:[1]

  • Titanattus andinus (Simon, 1900) – Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina
  • Titanattus cordia Edwards & Baert, 2018Ecuador (Galapagos Is.)
  • Titanattus cretatus Chickering, 1946Panama
  • Titanattus euryphaessa Bustamante & Ruiz, 2017 – Brazil, Ecuador
  • Titanattus notabilis (Mello-Leitão, 1943) – Brazil, Argentina
  • Titanattus novarai Caporiacco, 1955Venezuela
  • Titanattus paganus Chickering, 1946 – Panama
  • Titanattus pallidus Mello-Leitão, 1943 – Brazil
  • Titanattus parvus (Mello-Leitão, 1945) – Argentina
  • Titanattus pegaseus Simon, 1900 – Brazil
  • Titanattus saevus Peckham & Peckham, 1885 (type) – Guatemala

References

  1. ^ a b c "Gen. Titanattus Peckham & Peckham, 1885", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2021-06-07
  2. ^ a b Bustamante, A. A.; Ruiz, G. R. S. (2017). "Systematics of Thiodinini (Araneae: Salticidae: Salticinae), with description of a new genus and twelve new species". Zootaxa. 4362 (3): 335. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4362.3.1. PMID 29245433.
  3. ^ Peckham, G. W.; Peckham, E. G. (1885). "On some new genera and species of Attidae from the eastern part of Guatemala". Proceedings of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin. 1885: 62–86.
  • Photographs of three unidentified Agelista species from Brazil
Taxon identifiers
Titanattus


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