Attinella

Attinella
Male Attinella concolor in Bastrop County, Texas
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Tribe: Sitticini
Genus: Attinella
Banks, 1905
Type species
Attus dorsatus
Banks, 1895
Species
  • Attinella concolor (Banks, 1895)
  • Attinella dorsata (Banks, 1895)
  • Attinella juniperi (Gertsch & Riechert, 1976)
Synonyms

Attinella is a genus of North American jumping spiders. It was first described by Nathan Banks in 1905 based on the type species Attinella dorsata (originally Attus dorsatus). As of March 2022 it contains only three species: A. concolor, A. dorsata, and A. juniperi. It was synonymized with Sitticus from 1979 to 2017, when the genus Sittiab was split from Sitticus by Prószyński in 2017, and Attinella was recognized as its senior synonym.