| Attidops | |
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| Female Attidops nickersoni | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Salticinae |
| Genus: | Attidops Banks, 1905[1] |
| Type species | |
| Ballus youngii Peckham & Peckham, 1888[1] | |
| Species | |
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See text. | |
| Diversity | |
| 4 species | |
Attidops is a genus of jumping spiders (family Salticidae). It is closely related to the genera Ballus, Admestina and Icius.[2]
Description
Attidops are from two to three millimeters in body length, with a dark reddish-brown prosoma which is darker around the eyes. On the underside, and on the legs they are reddish- to yellowish-brown. The entire body, but especially the sides are sparsely covered with short white hairs and translucent clear to white flattened hairs that look like scales. The sexes look similar to each other.[2]
Distribution
Spiders of this genus occur in North America from Canada to Mexico.[1]
Name
The genus name is combined from -attus, a common ending for salticid genera, and Greek '-ops' "to look like". Banks (1905) created the genus in a footnote, stating simply "Attidops, a new genus for Ballus youngi Peck".[2]
Species
As of March 2017, the World Spider Catalog accepted the following species:[1]
- Attidops cinctipes (Banks, 1900) – United States
- Attidops cutleri Edwards, 1999 – USA, Mexico
- Attidops nickersoni Edwards, 1999 – USA
- Attidops youngi (Peckham & Peckham, 1888) – USA, Canada
References
- 1 2 3 4 "Gen. Attidops Banks, 1905". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2017-03-04.
- 1 2 3 Edwards, G.B. (1999). "The genus Attidops (Aranaea, Salticidae)" (PDF). Journal of Arachnology. 27: 7–15. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-02-11. Retrieved 2017-03-04.
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