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{{Short description|Species of spider}}
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|image =BlackwallSpidersPlateIII.jpg
|image_caption = ''Attulus saltator'' fig 30
|genus=Attulus
|species=saltator
|authority=(O.P.-Cambridge, 1868)<ref name=WSC_s32774/>
|synonyms=
  {{Specieslist
  |Attus saltator|O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1868
  |Salticus saltator|(O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1868)
  |Sitticulus saltator|(O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1868)
  |Sitticus saltator|(O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1868)
  |Yllenus saltator|(O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1868)
  }}
|synonyms_ref=<ref name=WSC_s32774/>
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'''''Attulus saltator''''' (formerly '''''Sitticus saltator''''') is a species of [[Biology:Jumping spider|jumping spider]],<ref name=WSC_s32774/> from the Sitticinae subfamily.{{citation needed|date=September 2017}} It was first described by Frederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1868 and has a Palearctic distribution,<ref name=WSC_s32774/> including Great Britain.<ref name=britishspiders>{{cite web|url=http://srs.britishspiders.org.uk/portal.php/p/Summary/s/Sitticus+saltator|title=Summary for Sitticus saltator (Araneae)|publisher=British spiders|accessdate=25 February 2012}}</ref>

==Description==
Females have a body length of up to about {{cvt|4|mm|in|frac=16}}, males being slightly smaller at around {{cvt|3|mm|in|frac=16}}. The [[Biology:Carapace|carapace]] is black with a lighter marking in the midline, the [[Biology:Abdomen|abdomen]] brownish with lighter markings. The fourth pair of legs are longer than in species of the closely related genus ''Sitticus''. Identification is based on the precise structure of the female epigyne and the male palpal bulb.<ref name=Robe95p201>{{Cite book |last=Roberts |first=Michael J. |year=1995 |title=Spiders of Britain & Northern Europe |publication-place=London |publisher=HarperCollins |isbn=978-0-00-219981-0 |p=201 }}</ref>

==Taxonomy==
The species was first described, as ''Attus saltator'', by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1868. In 1871, he moved it to the genus ''[[Biology:Salticus|Salticus]]''. It has also been placed in the genus ''[[Biology:Sitticus|Sitticus]]'', the placement used by most (but not all) arachnologists until 2017,<ref name=WSC_s32774/> when [[Biography:Jerzy Prószyński|Jerzy Prószyński]] split the genus ''Sitticus'', creating five new genera, as well as transferring some species, including ''S.&nbsp;saltator'', to the genus ''[[Biology:Attulus|Attulus]]''.<ref name=Pros17/><ref name=WSC_s32774/>

==Distribution and habitat==
''Attulus saltator'' is found from western Europe through to south-western Siberia.<ref name=Logu93/> In England and Wales, it is mainly found in sandy places such as sand [[Earth:Dune|dune]]s.<ref name=Robe95p201/><ref name=britishspiders/> Elsewhere in northern Europe, it is widespread, but uncommon.<ref name=Robe95p201/>

==References==
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<ref name=Logu93>{{Cite journal |last1=Logunov |first1=D.V. |date=1993 |title=Notes on the penicillatus species group of the genus ''Sitticus'' Simon, 1901 with a description of a new species (Araneae, Salticidae) |journal=Genus |volume=4 |issue=1 |pages=1–15 }}</ref>

<ref name=Pros17>{{Cite journal |last1=Prószyński |first1=J. |date=2017 |title=Revision of the genus ''Sitticus'' Simon, 1901 s. l. (Araneae: Salticidae) |journal=Ecologica Montenegrina |volume=10 |pages=35–50 }}</ref>

<ref name=WSC_s32774>{{cite web |title=Taxon details ''Attulus saltator'' (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1868) |work=World Spider Catalog |publisher=Natural History Museum Bern |url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/species/32774 |accessdate=2017-09-08 }}</ref>
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[[Category:Sitticini]]

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