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Genus: Attulus Simon, 1889 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Attulus cautus (G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1888)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:036214

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Described: j

Distribution: Mexico

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

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Taxonomic References

Attus cautus Peckham & Peckham, 1888: 92 (Dj) Original description

Sitticus cautus Simon, 1901a: 580

Attulus cautus Maddison et al., 2020a: 11 (T from Sitticus, automatically with S of the genus)

References

Maddison, W. P., Maddison, D. R., Derkarabetian, S. & Hedin, M. (2020a). Sitticine jumping spiders: phylogeny, classification, and chromosomes (Araneae, Salticidae, Sitticini). ZooKeys 925: 1-54. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.925.39691 -- Show included taxa

Peckham, G. W. & Peckham, E. G. (1888). Attidae of North America. Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters 7: 1-104, pl. 1-6. -- 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

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
2020-04-10	New taxonomic reference entry	Maddison et al., 2020a
2020-04-10	Species transferred to new genus	Maddison et al., 2020a		Species transferred from Sitticus to Attulus