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Titanattus

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Titanattus
Scientific classification Edit this 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

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Synonyms[1]

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]

Species

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As of 2021 it contains eleven species, found in Central America, Venezuela, Ecuador, Argentina, Paraguay, and Brazil:[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Gen. Titanattus Peckham & Peckham, 1885", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2021-06-07
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ 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.
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