Titanattus Explained

Titanattus is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by George and Elizabeth Peckham in 1885.^[1] The name is a combination of "Titan" and the common salticid suffix -attus. It was merged with Agelista in 2017.^[2]

Species

it contains eleven species, found in Central America, Venezuela, Ecuador, Argentina, Paraguay, and Brazil:

• 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

External links

• Photographs of three unidentified Agelista species from Brazil

Notes and References

1. 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. 62–86. 1885. George and Elizabeth Peckham. George and Elizabeth Peckham.
2. 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. 10.11646/zootaxa.4362.3.1. 29245433.