''Attinella'' is a

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of North American

jumping spider Jumping spiders are a group of spiders that constitute the family (biology), family Salticidae. , this family contained over 600 species description, described genus, genera and over 6,000 described species, making it the largest family of spide ...

s. It was first described by

Nathan Banks Nathan Banks (April 13, 1868 – January 24, 1953) was an American entomologist noted for his work on Neuroptera, Megaloptera, Hymenoptera, and Acarina (mites). He started work on mites in 1880 with the USDA. In 1909 he reported many Costa Rican ...

in 1905 based on the type species '' Attinella dorsata'' (originally ''Attus dorsatus''). it contains only three species: '' A. concolor'', '' A. dorsata'', and '' A. juniperi''. It was synonymized with ''

Sitticus ''Attulus'' is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1889. The name is a diminutive form of a common prefix for salticid genera, '. Taxonomy In 1889, Eugène Simon separated the genus ''Attulus'' from the ...

'' from 1979 to 2017, when the genus ''Sittiab'' was split from ''Sitticus'' by Prószyński in 2017, and ''Attinella'' was recognized as its

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Phylogeny

''Attinella'' is placed in the tribe Sitticini within the family

Salticidae Jumping spiders are a group of spiders that constitute the family (biology), family Salticidae. , this family contained over 600 species description, described genus, genera and over 6,000 described species, making it the largest family of spide ...

. In 2020,

Wayne Maddison Wayne Paul Maddison (born 1958) is a Canadian evolutionary biologist, arachnologist, and biological illustrator. He is Canada Research Chair in Biodiversity and a professor at the departments of zoology and botany at the University of British ...

and co-workers divided the tribe Sitticini into two subtribes, Aillutticina and Sitticina. ''Attinella'' was placed in Sitticina, within a clade whose sister was the genus ''

Attulus ''Attulus'' is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1889. The name is a diminutive form of a common prefix for salticid genera, '. Taxonomy In 1889, Eugène Simon separated the genus ''Attulus'' from the ...

''. The relationship between these taxa is shown in the following cladogram.

Phylogeny

See also

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