Attidops

Attidops
Female Attidops nickersoni
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Subkingdom: Eumetazoa
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Section: Dionycha
Superfamily: Salticoidea
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Marpissiniae
Genus: Attidops
Banks, 1905
Type species
Ballus youngii
Peckham & Peckham, 1888
Species

see text

Diversity
4 species

Attidops is a genus of jumping spiders. It is closely related to the genera Ballus, Admestina and Icius, possibly derived from the Dendryphantinae.[1]

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.[1]

Distribution

Spiders of this genus occur in North America from Canada to Mexico.[2]

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".[1]

Species

Footnotes

  1. 1 2 3 Edwards 1999
  2. World Spider Catalog

References

External links

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