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

Attulus walckenaeri (Roewer, 1951)

SPECIES | NOMEN DUBIUM

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Distribution: France, Sweden

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Taxonomic References

Aranea nigra Walckenaer, 1802: 247 (Df; preoccupied, see Martini & Goeze, 1778: 152)

Attus niger Walckenaer, 1837: 412

Sitticus niger Reimoser, 1919: 104

Sitticus walckenaeri Roewer, 1951: 453 (replacement name) Original description

Sitticus walckenaeri Breitling et al., 2016b: 67 (nomen dubium)

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

References

Breitling, R., Bauer, T., Schäfer, M., Morano, E., Barrientos, J. A. & Blick, T. (2016b). Phantom spiders 2: More notes on dubious spider species from Europe. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 52: 50-77. doi: 10.5431/aramit5209 -- 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

Reimoser, E. (1919). Katalog der echten Spinnen (Araneae) des Paläarktischen Gebietes. Abhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 10(2): 1-280. -- Show included taxa

Roewer, C. F. (1951). Neue Namen einiger Araneen-Arten. Abhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins zu Bremen 32: 437-456. -- Show included taxa

Walckenaer, C. A. (1802). Faune parisienne. Insectes. Ou histoire abrégée des insectes de environs de Paris, classés d'après le système de Fabricius. Tome seconde. Dentu, Paris, pp. 187-250, 428-430. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.8151 -- Show included taxa

Walckenaer, C. A. (1837). Histoire naturelle des insectes. Aptères. Tome premier. Roret, Paris, 682 pp., pl. 1-15. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.61095 [plates in second pdf] -- Show included taxa

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Metzner, H. (2026). Jumping spiders (Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae) of the world. Online at https://www.jumping-spiders.com.

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	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
2016-10-04	Taxon is nomen dubium	Breitling et al., 2016b	Sitticus walckenaeri Roewer, 1951 declared a nomen dubium