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
| synonyms =
- Agelista Simon, 1900
}}
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 }}
- Titanattus andinus {{anchor|Titanattus andinus}} (Simon, 1900) – Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina
- Titanattus cordia Edwards & Baert, 2018 – Ecuador (Galapagos Is.)
- Titanattus cretatus Chickering, 1946 – Panama
- Titanattus euryphaessa Bustamante & Ruiz, 2017 – Brazil, Ecuador
- Titanattus notabilis (Mello-Leitão, 1943) – Brazil, Argentina
- Titanattus novarai Caporiacco, 1955 – Venezuela
- Titanattus paganus Chickering, 1946 – Panama
- Titanattus pallidus Mello-Leitão, 1943 – Brazil
- Titanattus parvus (Mello-Leitão, 1945) – Argentina
- Titanattus pegaseus Simon, 1900 – Brazil
- Titanattus saevus Peckham & Peckham, 1885 (type) – Guatemala
References
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External links
- [http://salticidae.org/salticid/diagnost/agelista/sp-braz.htm Photographs of three unidentified Agelista species from Brazil]
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Category:Spiders of Central America
Category:Spiders of South America
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