Attulus eskovi

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Attulus eskovi
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Genus: Attulus
Species:
A. eskovi
Binomial name
Attulus eskovi
Logunov & Wesołowska, 1995
Synonyms
  • Sitticus eskovi(Logunov & Wesołowska, 1995)

Attulus eskovi is a jumping spider species in the family Salticidae that was first described in 1995. [1]

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Etymology

The species is named after Kirill Eskov, who collected most of the type material and information on its habitat. [2]

Distribution

The holotype was found in the Kurile Islands and the species is known from Primorsky Krai in the Russian Far East and Sakhalin. [2] Logunov & Wesołowska speculate that it is probable that it also occurs in Japan and Korea. [2]

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References

  1. World Spider Catalog (2017). "Sitticus eskovi Logunov & Wesolowska, 1995". World Spider Catalog. 18.0. Bern: Natural History Museum. Retrieved 6 November 2017.
  2. 1 2 3 Logunov, D. V.; Wesolowska, W. (1995). "New data on some poorly known Palaearctic species of Sitticus (Araneae: Salticidae)" (PDF). Genus. 6: 163–175. Retrieved 6 November 2017.