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Genus: Titanattus G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1885 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Titanattus andinus (Simon, 1900)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032237

Permalink: https://wsc.nmbe.ch/lsid/urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032237

Described:

Distribution: French Guiana, Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina

External Resources*: Jumping Spiders of the World Metzner (2026) | Salticidae Database Prószyński (2025) | GBIF

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019) f (41377, destroyed by the fire 2018) of Scopocira obscura -
Paratype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019) Agelista hirsuta Mello-Leitão, 1941, (01048); 1 m 1 f (destroyed by the fire 2018) -
Holotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France f - (Rubio, Baigorria & Stolar, 2021b)
Lectotype: Museo de La Plata (MLP), La Plata, Argentina m (14962) of Agelista hirsuta - (Galiano, 1980b)
Paralectotype: Museo de La Plata (MLP), La Plata, Argentina f (14962) of Agelista hirsuta - (Galiano, 1980b)
Paratype: Museo de La Plata (MLP), La Plata, Argentina 2m 4f (14964, 14966-14968) of Agelista hirsuta - (Galiano, 1980b)

Taxonomic References

Agelista andina Simon, 1900b: 383 (Dm) Original description

Agelista modesta Simon, 1901a: 436 (no description, nomen nudum) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:055226]

Agelista andina Simon, 1901a: 439, f. 489 (m)

Agelista hirsuta Mello-Leitão, 1941d: 179, f. 71, pl. 11, f. 49 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:055227]

Scopocira obscura Mello-Leitão, 1943a: 230, f. 57 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:055228]

Agelista schubarti Soares & Camargo, 1948a: 398, f. 72-73 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:055229]

Agelista andina Galiano, 1963a: 283, pl. III, f. 4-6 (m)

Agelista andina Galiano, 1963d: 29, pl. I, f. 1-10 (mf, S of Agelista hirsuta, A. modesta, A. schubarti and Scopocira obscura)

Agelista andina Prószyński, 2017b: 61, f. 27Z, 28A (mf)

Titanattus andinus Bustamante & Ruiz, 2017: 338, f. 27A-B (m, T from Agelista)

Titanattus andinus Rubio, Baigorria & Scioscia, 2018: 123, f. 95, 96A-C, 97A-B (mf)

Titanattus andinus Rubio, Baigorria & Stolar, 2021b: 1073, f. 1-2, 22-24 (mf)

References

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): 301-347. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4362.3.1 -- Show included taxa

Galiano, M. E. (1963a). Las especies americanas de arañas de la familia Salticidae descriptas por Eugène Simon. Redescripciones basadas en los ejemplares típicos. Physis, Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Ciencias Naturales (C) 23(68): 273-470. -- Show included taxa

Galiano, M. E. (1963d). Revisión del género Agelista Simon, 1900, con nota sobre Titanattus notabilis (Mello-Leitão) comb. n. (Araneae, Salticidae). Physis, Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Ciencias Naturales (C) 24: 29-34. -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1941d). Las arañas de Córdoba, La Rioja, Catamarca, Tucumán, Salta y Jujuy colectadas por los Profesores Birabén. Revista del Museo de La Plata (N.S., Zool.) 2: 99-198. -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1943a). Catálogo das aranhas do Rio Grande do Sul. Arquivos do Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro 37: 147-245, 24 pls. -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (2017b). Pragmatic classification of the world's Salticidae (Araneae). Ecologica Montenegrina 12: 1-133. doi: 10.37828/em.2017.12.1 -- Show included taxa

Rubio, G. D., Baigorria, J. E. M. & Stolar, C. E. (2021b). Titanattus Peckham & Peckham, 1885 in Argentina (Araneae: Salticidae: Thiodinini), with the description of a new species. Arachnology 18(9): 1070-1076. doi: 10.13156/arac.2021.18.9.1070 -- Show included taxa

Rubio, G. D., Baigorria, J. E. M. & Scioscia, C. L. (2018). Arañas saltícidas de Misiones. Guía para la identificación (tribus basales). Ediciones Fundación Azara, Universidad Maimónides, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, 208 pp. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1900b). Descriptions d'arachnides nouveaux de la famille des Attidae. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 44: 381-407. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1901a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome second. Roret, Paris, pp. 381-668. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.51973 [[last page with detailed publication dates of the single parts]] -- Show included taxa

Soares, B. A. M. & Camargo, H. F. de A. (1948a). Aranhas coligidas pela Fundação Brasil-Central (Arachnida-Araneae). Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi 10: 355-409. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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As External Resources, the World Spider Catalog links here to species pages of other databases. They may contain further information for the given species. The databases, listed as External Resources, however, are not managed by World Spider Catalog and the information given there is not necessarily in agreement with the World Spider Catalog. All responsibility for such data is with the external database.

Metzner, H. (2026). Jumping spiders (Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae) of the world. Online at https://www.jumping-spiders.com.

Prószyński, J. (2025). Salticidae (Araneae) Genera of the World "a management tool for developing a new system of Salticidae" - a scrollable e-Textbook. Version December 20th, 2025, online at http://www.salticidae.pl.

GBIF.org (2026). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [8 January 2026]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2026-02-23	Species distribution update	Courtial, Picard & Pétillon, 2026	Old value
2025-08-16	New taxonomic reference entry	Rubio, Baigorria & Scioscia, 2018
2021-11-10	New taxonomic reference entry	Rubio, Baigorria & Stolar, 2021b
2017-12-12	New taxonomic reference entry	Bustamante & Ruiz, 2017
2017-12-12	Species transferred to new genus	Bustamante & Ruiz, 2017		Species transferred from Agelista to Titanattus
2017-09-10	New taxonomic reference entry	Prószyński, 2017b