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Genus: Attinella Banks, 1905 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Attinella juniperi (Gertsch & Riechert, 1976)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:036239

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Described:

Distribution: USA

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

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Taxonomic References

Sitticus juniperi Gertsch & Riechert, 1976: 21, f. 37-41 (Dmf) Original description

Sittiab juniperi Prószyński, 2017a: 41 (T from Sitticus)

Attinella juniperi W. Maddison in Maddison et al., 2020a: 27 (T from Sittiab)

References

Gertsch, W. J. & Riechert, S. E. (1976). The spatial and temporal partitioning of a desert spider community, with descriptions of new species. American Museum Novitates 2604: 1-25. -- 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. (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

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	Comment
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 Sittiab to Attinella
2017-04-11	New taxonomic reference entry	Prószyński, 2017a
2017-04-11	Species transferred to new genus	Prószyński, 2017a	Species transferred from Sitticus to Sittiab