Attinella dorsata (Banks, 1895)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:036223

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Described:


Type Repository Provide information
  • Paratype: American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), New York, USA (Syn: Attinella absolutus) - (Prószyński, 1971e)
  • Holotype: Naturhistorisches Museum, Basel (NMB), Switzerland m (ARAN-02225a) of Sitticus hansii - (Schenkel, 1951)
Taxonomic References
Attus dorsatus Banks, 1895e: 97 (Df) Original description
Attinella dorsata Banks, 1905a: 322
Sitticus absolutus Gertsch & Mulaik, 1936a: 19, f. 19-20 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:049276]
Sitticus callidus Gertsch & Mulaik, 1936a: 20, f. 17-18 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062329]
Sitticus hansii Schenkel, 1951: 44, f. 44 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062331]
Sitticus absolutus Prószyński, 1973a: 79, f. 17-19, 22-44 (mf, S of Sitticus callidus and S. hansi)
Sitticus dorsatus Richman, 1979: 125 (S of Sitticus absolutus; rejected by Prószyński, 2017: 41, but confirmed by W. Maddison, in Maddison et al., 2020a: 30)
Sitticus dorsatus Breene et al., 1993: 67, f. 47A-B (mf)
Sittiab absolutus Prószyński, 2017a: 41, f. 2E, 2F2-6, 2G2-6, 2H1-2 (mf, T from Sitticus; removed from S of Sitticus dorsatus rejecting Richman, 1979: 125, but S confirmed by W. Maddison, in Maddison et al., 2020a: 30)
Sittiab absolutus Prószyński, 2017b: 65, f. 29I (mf)
Attinella dorsata W. Maddison in Maddison et al., 2020a: 30, f. 11-14, 94-98, 105 (mf, T from Sittiab, S of Sittiab = Sitticus absolutus confirmed)
Attinella dorsata Del-Pozo et al., 2023: 59, f. 1a-d (m)
References

Banks, N. (1895e). Some new Attidae. The Canadian Entomologist 27(4): 96-102. doi: 10.4039/Ent2796-4 -- Show included taxa

Banks, N. (1905a). Synopses of North American invertebrates. XX. Families and genera of Araneida. American Naturalist 39: 293-323. -- Show included taxa

Breene, R. G., Dean, D. A., Nyffeler, M. & Edwards, G. B. (1993). Biology, Predation Ecology, and Significance of Spiders in Texas Cotton Ecosystems with a Key to Species. Texas Agriculture Experiment Station College Station, 115 pp. -- Show included taxa

Del-Pozo, J., Yáñez-Ramírez, M., López-Salazar, J. L., Palacios-Cardiel, C., Chamé-Vázquez, D. & Jiménez, M. L. (2023). Nuevos registros de arañas (Arachnida: Araneae) para la Península de Baja California, México. Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina 82(2): 58-61. doi: 10.25085/rsea.820208 -- Show included taxa

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

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

Prószyński, J. (1973a). Revision of the spider genus Sitticus Simon, 1901 (Aranei, Salticidae), III. Sitticus penicillatus (Simon, 1875) and related forms. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 30: 71-95. -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (2017a). Revision of the genus Sitticus Simon, 1901 s. l. (Araneae: Salticidae). Ecologica Montenegrina 10: 35-50. doi: 10.37828/em.2017.10.7 -- 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

Richman, D. B. (1979). Jumping spiders of the United States and Canada: Changes in the key and list (1). Peckhamia 1: 125. -- Show included taxa

Schenkel, E. (1951). Spinnentiere aus dem westlichen Nordamerika, gesammelt von Dr. Hans Schenkel-Rudin. Zweiter Teil. Verhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Basel 62: 24-62. -- 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
2023-07-08 New taxonomic reference entry Del-Pozo et al., 2023
2023-07-08 Species distribution update Del-Pozo et al., 2023 Old value
2020-04-09 Species synonymy Maddison et al., 2020a Attinella absolutus synonymized with Attinella dorsata
2020-04-09 New taxonomic reference entry Maddison et al., 2020a
2020-04-09 Species transferred to new genus Maddison et al., 2020a Species transferred from Sitticus to Attinella
2017-04-11 Taxonomic reference update Prószyński, 2017a Old value
2017-04-11 Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon Prószyński, 2017a Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Sitticus absolutus Gertsch & Mulaik, 1936
2017-04-11 Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon Prószyński, 2017a Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Sitticus absolutus Gertsch & Mulaik, 1936
2017-04-11 Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon Prószyński, 2017a Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Sitticus absolutus Gertsch & Mulaik, 1936
2017-04-11 Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon Prószyński, 2017a Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Sitticus absolutus Gertsch & Mulaik, 1936
2017-04-11 Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon Prószyński, 2017a Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Sitticus absolutus Gertsch & Mulaik, 1936

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