Titanattus | |
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Titanattus euryphaessa , Brazil | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
Family: | Salticidae |
Subfamily: | Salticinae |
Genus: | Titanattus Peckham & Peckham, 1885 [1] |
Type species | |
T. saevus Peckham & Peckham, 1885 | |
Species | |
Synonyms [1] | |
Titanattus is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by George and Elizabeth Peckham in 1885. [3] 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. [2]
As of 2021 [update] it contains eleven species, found in Central America, Venezuela, Ecuador, Argentina, Paraguay, and Brazil: [1]
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