World Spider Catalog

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

Habronattus forticulus (Gertsch & Mulaik, 1936)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033636

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Described:

Distribution: 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 00356975) - (Gertsch & Mulaik, 1936a)
Allotype: American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), New York, USA f - (Gertsch & Mulaik, 1936a)
Paratype: American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), New York, USA 3m 3f - (Gertsch & Mulaik, 1936a)

Taxonomic References

Pellenes forticulus Gertsch & Mulaik, 1936a: 18, f. 29-30 (Dmf) Original description

Habronattus forticulus Griswold, 1987a: 151, f. 101 (m, T from Pellenes)

Habronattus forticulus Maddison & Maddison, 2016: 3, f. 6 (m, leg III)

References

Gertsch, W. J. & Mulaik, S. (1936a). Diagnoses of new southern spiders. American Museum Novitates 851: 1-21. -- 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

Maddison, W. P. & Maddison, D. R. (2016). Two new jumping spider species of the Habronattus clypeatus group (Araneae, Salticidae, Harmochirina). ZooKeys 625: 1-10. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.625.9891 -- 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]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2016-10-27	New taxonomic reference entry	Maddison & Maddison, 2016