Biology:Attinella

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Short description: Genus of jumping spiders

Attinella
Salt0249 Attinella concolor male.jpg
Male Attinella concolor in Bastrop County, Texas
Scientific classification e
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
  • (Gertsch & Riechert, 1976) (Banks, 1895)
  • Attinella dorsata Attinella concolor
  • (Banks, 1895) Attinella juniperi
Synonyms[1]

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]

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
JoliasTomis clade

Attinella

Jollas

Sittisax

Tomis

Attulus

See also

References

Further reading

Wikidata ☰ Q90130532 entry