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Genus: Habronattus F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Habronattus altanus (Gertsch, 1934)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033597

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Described:

Distribution: Canada, USA, Mexico

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), New York, USA m (IZC 00356971) - (Gertsch, 1934d)
Paratype: American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), New York, USA 1m - (Gertsch, 1934d)

Taxonomic References

Pellenes altanus Gertsch, 1934d: 21, f. 21 (Dm) Original description

Habronattus altanus Levi & Levi, 1951: 230, f. 32, 35 (Df)

Habronattus altanus Griswold, 1987a: 213, f. 136, 230 (mf, T from Pellenes)

References

Gertsch, W. J. (1934d). Further notes on American spiders. American Museum Novitates 726: 1-26. -- Show included taxa

Griswold, C. E. (1987a). A revision of the jumping spider genus Habronattus F. O. P.-Cambridge (Araneae; Salticidae), with phenetic and cladistic analyses. The University of California Publications in Entomology 107: 1-344. -- Show included taxa

Levi, H. W. & Levi, L. R. (1951). Report on a collection of spiders and harvestmen from Wyoming and neighboring states. Zoologica, Scientific Contributions of the New York Zoological Society 36: 219-237. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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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]

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