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).[3] As of March 2022 it contains only three species: A. concolor, A. dorsata, and A. juniperi.[1] It was synonymized with Sitticus from 1979[4] to 2017, when the genus Sittiab was split from Sitticus by Prószyński in 2017,[5] and Attinella was recognized as its senior synonym.[2]

Attinella
Male Attinella concolor in Bastrop County, Texas
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Tribe: Sitticini
Genus: Attinella
Banks, 1905[1]
Type species
Attus dorsatus[1]
Banks, 1895
Species
  • Attinella concolor (Banks, 1895)
  • Attinella dorsata (Banks, 1895)
  • Attinella juniperi (Gertsch & Riechert, 1976)
Synonyms[1]

Phylogeny

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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. The relationship between these taxa is shown in the following cladogram.[2]

Sitticini
Aillutticina

Five Neotropical genera

Sitticina
JoliasTomis clade

Attinella

Jollas

Attulus

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d "Gen. Attinella Banks, 1905". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2022. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2022-03-03.
  2. ^ a b c Maddison, W. P.; Maddison, D. R.; Derkarabetian, S.; et al. (2020). "Sitticine jumping spiders: phylogeny, classification, and chromosomes (Araneae, Salticidae, Sitticini)". ZooKeys (925): 1–54. Bibcode:2020ZooK..925....1M. doi:10.3897/zookeys.925.39691. PMC 7160194. PMID 32317852.
  3. ^ Banks, N. (1905). "Synopses of North American invertebrates. XX. Families and genera of Araneida". American Naturalist. 39 (461): 293–323. doi:10.1086/278514. S2CID 84021940.
  4. ^ Richman, D. B. (1979). "Jumping spiders of the United States and Canada: Changes in the key and list (1)". Peckhamia. 1: 125.
  5. ^ Prószyński, J. (2017). "Revision of the genus Sitticus Simon, 1901 s. l. (Araneae: Salticidae)". Ecologica Montenegrina. 10: 35–50. doi:10.37828/em.2017.10.7.

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