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]
| Titanattus | |
|---|---|
Scientific 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 | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
Species
editAs 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, 2018 – Ecuador (Galapagos Is.)
- Titanattus cretatus Chickering, 1946 – Panama
- Titanattus euryphaessa Bustamante & Ruiz, 2017 – Brazil, Ecuador
- Titanattus notabilis (Mello-Leitão, 1943) – Brazil, Argentina
- Titanattus novarai Caporiacco, 1955 – Venezuela
- 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
edit- ^ a b c "Gen. Titanattus Peckham & Peckham, 1885", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2021-06-07
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
External links
edit
 | This article related to jumping spiders (Salticidae) is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |