Titanattus

{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Titanattus

| image_caption = Titanattus euryphaessa, Brazil

| image = Titanattus_euryphaessa_-_inat_56002561.jpg

| authority = Peckham & Peckham, 1885

| type_species = T. saevus

| type_species_authority = Peckham & Peckham, 1885

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = See text

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Titanattus is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by George and Elizabeth Peckham in 1885.{{cite journal| last1=Peckham| first1=G. W.| last2=Peckham| first2=E. G.| year=1885| title=On some new genera and species of Attidae from the eastern part of Guatemala| journal=Proceedings of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin| pages=62–86| volume=1885| author-link=George and Elizabeth Peckham| author-link2=George and Elizabeth Peckham}} The name is a combination of "Titan" and the common salticid suffix -attus. The genus Agelista was accepted as a synonym of Titanattus in 2017.{{cite journal| last1=Bustamante| first1=A. A.| last2=Ruiz| first2=G. R. S.| year=2017| title=Systematics of Thiodinini (Araneae: Salticidae: Salticinae), with description of a new genus and twelve new species| journal=Zootaxa| volume=4362| issue=3| page=335| doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4362.3.1| pmid=29245433}}

Species

{{as of|2021}} it contains eleven species, found in Central America, Venezuela, Ecuador, Argentina, Paraguay, and Brazil:{{citation |title=Gen. Titanattus Peckham & Peckham, 1885 |work=World Spider Catalog |publisher=Natural History Museum Bern |url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3018 |access-date=2021-06-07 }}

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