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

Attulus godlewskii (Kulczyński, 1895)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:049278

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Described:

Distribution: Russia (Middle Siberia to Far East), China, Korea, Japan. Introduced to North America

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

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Taxonomic References

Attus godlewskii Kulczyński, 1895d: 74, pl. 2, f. 34 (Df) Original description

Sitticus godlewskii Simon, 1901a: 580

Sitticus godlewskii Prószyński, 1962a: 65, f. 1-4 (f)

Sitticus fasciger Prószyński, 1968c: 399, f. 3, 9-16 (mf; misidentified per Prószyński, 2017a: 42)

Sitticus godlewskii Prószyński, 2017a: 42 (removed from S of Sitticus fasciger, rejecting Prószyński, 1968c: 399, but not mentioning which other figs. of S. fasciger may belong here or if Sitticus = Attulus barnesi also belongs here)

Attulus godlewskii W. Maddison in Maddison et al., 2020a: 15 (T from Sitticus)

References

Kulczyński, W. (1895d). Attidae musei zoologici Varsoviensis in Siberia orientali collecti. Rozprawy i Sprawozdania z Posiedzen Wydzialu Matematyczno Przyrodniczego Akademji Umiejetnosci, Krakow 32: 45-98. -- 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. (1962a). Redescription of Sitticus godlweskii (Kulczyński, 1895) (Araneida, Salticidae) and remarks on its systematic position. Bulletin de l'Académie Polonaise des Sciences 10: 65-68. -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (1968c). Revision of the spider genus Sitticus Simon, 1901 (Araneida, Salticidae), I. The terebratus group. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 26: 391-407. -- 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

Simon, E. (1901a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome second. Roret, Paris, pp. 381-668. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.51973 [[last page with detailed publication dates of the single parts]] -- 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
2020-04-23	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 Attulus
2017-04-11	New taxonomic reference entry	Prószyński, 2017a
2017-04-11	Taxonomic reference added from other taxon	Prószyński, 2017a	Old value
2017-04-11	Taxonomic reference added from other taxon	Prószyński, 2017a	Old value
2017-04-11	Taxonomic reference added from other taxon	Prószyński, 2017a	Old value
2017-04-11	Taxonomic reference added from other taxon	Prószyński, 2017a	Old value
2017-04-11	Species updated	Prószyński, 2017a	Old value	Removed synonymy