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Genus: Attulus Simon, 1889 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Attulus basalis (Karsch, 1879)

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Described: j

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Distribution: Japan

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Holotype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany j (2926) - (Logunov, 1998c)

Taxonomic References

Attus basalis Karsch, 1879g: 90 (Df) Original description

Sitticus basalis Logunov, 1998c: 80 (type is juvenile, nomen dubium)

Sitticus basalis Logunov & Marusik, 2001: 259 (nomen dubium confirmed)

Attulus basalis Maddison et al., 2020a: 11 (T from Sitticus, automatically with S of the genus)

References

Karsch, F. (1879g). Baustoffe zu einer Spinnenfauna von Japan. Verhandlungen des Naturhistorischen Vereins der Preussischen Rheinlande und Westfalens 36: 57-105. -- Show included taxa

Logunov, D. V. (1998c). New species and new records of Palaearctic Sitticus (Araneae: Salticidae). Zoosystematica Rossica 7(1): 77-83. -- Show included taxa

Logunov, D. V. & Marusik, Y. M. (2001). Catalogue of the jumping spiders of northern Asia (Arachnida, Araneae, Salticidae). KMK Scientific Press, Moscow, 300 pp. -- Show included taxa

Maddison, W. P., Maddison, D. R., Derkarabetian, S. & Hedin, M. (2020a). Sitticine jumping spiders: phylogeny, classification, and chromosomes (Araneae, Salticidae, Sitticini). ZooKeys 925: 1-54. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.925.39691 -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Metzner, H. (2026). Jumping spiders (Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae) of the world. Online at https://www.jumping-spiders.com.

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2020-04-10	New taxonomic reference entry	Maddison et al., 2020a
2020-04-10	Species transferred to new genus	Maddison et al., 2020a		Species transferred from Sitticus to Attulus