Attinella

Attinella
Male Attinella concolor in Bastrop County, Texas
Scientific 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]
Sittiab Prószyński, 2017[2]

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^[update] 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]

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

Sitticini	Aillutticina Five Neotropical genera Sitticina Jolias–Tomis clade Attinella Jollas Sittisax Tomis Attulus

See also

• Sitticus
• List of Salticidae genera

References

1. "Gen. Attinella Banks, 1905". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2022. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2022-03-03.
2. 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.

Further reading

• Prószyński, J. (2017). "Pragmatic classification of the world's Salticidae (Araneae)". Ecologica Montenegrina. 12: 1–133. doi:10.37828/em.2017.12.1.

• Maddison, W. P. (1996). "Pelegrina Franganillo and other jumping spiders formerly placed in the genus Metaphidippus (Araneae: Salticidae)". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 154: 215–368.