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

Attulus virgulatus (Walckenaer, 1802)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:056693

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Distribution: France

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Taxonomic References

Attus virgulatus Walckenaer, 1837: 414 (mf)

Attus virgulatus Roewer, 1955c: 1432 (nicht zu deuten = nomen dubium)

Sitticus virgulatus Bonnet, 1958: 4073 (sp. dubit. = nomen dubium, probable senior S of Sitticus = Attulus floricola)

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

References

Bonnet, P. (1958). Bibliographia araneorum. Analyse méthodique de toute la littérature aranéologique jusqu'en 1939. Tome II. Systématique des araignées (Étude par ordre alphabétique) (4me partie: N-S). Douladoure, Toulouse, pp. 3027-4230. -- 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

Roewer, C. F. (1955c). Katalog der Araneae von 1758 bis 1940, bzw. 1954. 2. Band, Abt. a (Lycosaeformia, Dionycha [excl. Salticiformia]). 2. Band, Abt. b (Salticiformia, Cribellata) (Synonyma-Verzeichnis, Gesamtindex). Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, Bruxelles, 1751 pp. -- 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	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