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

Attulus sylvestris (Emerton, 1891)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:051808

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Distribution: Canada, USA

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Holotype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA m - (Maddison et al., 2020a)

Taxonomic References

Attus sylvestris Emerton, 1891: 247, pl. 20, f. 4 (Dm) Original description

Sitticus magnus Chamberlin & Ivie, 1944: 214, f. 213 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:036244]

Sitticus magnus Prószyński, 1980: 21, f. 64-68 (mf)

Sitticus rupicola Prószyński, 1980: 19, f. 58-59 (f; misidentified per Maddison et al., 2020: 21)

Sittiflor magnus Prószyński, 2017a: 43 (T from Sitticus)

Sittiflor sylvestris Prószyński, 2017a: 43 (listed as a separate species, without giving an evidence for removal from S of S. floricola palustris)

Attulus sylvestris W. Maddison, in Maddison et al., 2020a: 21, f. 31-32, 54-58 (mf, T from Calositticus, removed from S of Calositticus floricola palustris contra Peckham & Peckham, 1909: 519, S of Calositticus magnus)

References

Chamberlin, R. V. & Ivie, W. (1944). Spiders of the Georgia region of North America. Bulletin of the University of Utah 35(9): 1-267. -- Show included taxa

Emerton, J. H. (1891). New England spiders of the family Attidae. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 8: 220-252, pl. 16-21. -- 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. (1980). Revision of the spider genus Sitticus Simon, 1901 (Aranei, Salticidae), IV. Sitticus floricola (C. L. Koch) group. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 36: 1-35. -- 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

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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
2020-04-09	Species synonymy	Maddison et al., 2020a		Attulus magnus synonymized with Attulus sylvestris
2020-04-09	New taxonomic reference entry	Prószyński, 2017a
2020-04-09	New taxonomic reference entry	Maddison et al., 2020a
2020-04-09	Taxonomic reference added from other taxon	Maddison et al., 2020a	Old value
2020-04-09	New species inserted	Emerton, 1891