# Attus

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{{short description|Genus of arachnids (junior synonym of Salticus)}}
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'''''Attus''''' is a [taxon](/source/taxon) name that is now considered a [junior synonym](/source/Synonym_(taxonomy)) of ''[Salticus](/source/Salticus)''. In the early 19th century, most [jumping spiders](/source/jumping_spiders) were grouped together as a single [genus](/source/genus) under the name ''Attus''.<ref name="Proszynski"/>

The genus was originally described in 1805 by [Charles Walckenaer](/source/Charles_Athanase_Walckenaer),<ref name="Walckenaer"/> only a year after [Pierre Latreille](/source/Pierre_Andr%C3%A9_Latreille) described the first jumping spider genus (or subgenus), ''Salticus''.<ref name="Latreille1804"/> Walckenaer, ignoring  Latreille, placed all of the spiders assigned to ''Salticus'' into his new genus, ''Attus'', with the exception of ''[Aranea cinnaberinus](/source/Eresus_cinnaberinus)'', which he placed into ''[Eresus](/source/Eresus)''. No further actions were taken regarding these genera until 1810, when Latreille moved ''[Attus scenicus](/source/Salticus_scenicus)'' back to ''Salticus'' by declaring it as the [type species](/source/type_species) for the genus.<ref name="Pickard-Cambridge1901"/>

Over the course of the 19th century, numerous new genera were split off of ''Attus'', reducing the number of species assigned to the genus considerably. In 1832, [Nicholas Marcellus Hentz](/source/Nicholas_Marcellus_Hentz) detached the genera ''[Lyssomanes](/source/Lyssomanes)'', ''[Synemosyna](/source/Synemosyna)'', and ''[Epiblemum](/source/Epiblemum)'' from ''Attus''.<ref name="Peckham1885"/> In 1833, [Carl Sundevall](/source/Carl_Jakob_Sundevall) moved numerous species from ''Attus'' to ''Salticus''.<ref name="Peckham1885"/> From 1833 to 1850, [Carl Ludwig Koch](/source/Carl_Ludwig_Koch) created 24 new jumping spider genera, most of which were detached from ''Attus''.<ref name="Peckham1885"/>

Due to the genus's unclear definition, it was often used as a provisional classification for any jumping spiders that could not otherwise be assigned to a genus.<ref name="Proszynski"/><ref name="Peckham1888"/> In 1955, [Pierre Bonnet](/source/Pierre_Bonnet_(naturalist)) declared ''Attus'' to be a junior synonym of ''Salticus'', since Walckenaer did not differentiate ''Attus'' from ''Salticus'' and the latter has priority as an older name.<ref name="Bonnet1955"/>

==References==
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<ref name="Bonnet1955">{{cite book|title=Bibliographia Araneorum|first=Pierre|last=Bonnet|volume=2|year=1955|location=Toulouse, France|language=French|page=781}}</ref>

<ref name="Latreille1804">{{cite journal|title=Tableau methodique des Insectes|last=Latreille|first=Pierre André|year=1804|journal=Nouveau dictionnaire d'histoire naturelle|location=Paris|volume=24|page=135}}</ref>

<ref name="Peckham1885">{{cite journal|last1=Peckham|first1=George|last2=Peckham|first2=Elizabeth|title=Genera of the Family Attidae: With a Partial Synonymy|year=1885|journal=Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters|volume=6|page=261|url=http://www.peckhamia.com/editions/Peckham%201885%20Genera%20of%20the%20family%20Attidae%20with%20a%20partial%20synonymy.pdf}}</ref>

<ref name="Peckham1888">{{cite journal|last1=Peckham|first1=George|last2=Peckham|first2=Elizabeth|title=Attidae of North America|year=1888|journal=Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters|volume=7|page=8|url=http://www.peckhamia.com/editions/Peckham%201888%20Attidae%20of%20North%20America.pdf}}</ref>

<ref name="Pickard-Cambridge1901">{{cite journal|first=Frederick Octavius|last=Pickard-Cambridge|title=A Revision of the Genera of the Araneae or Spiders with Reference to their Type Species|journal=Annals and Magazine of Natural History|location=London|year=1901|volume=9|page=65}}</ref>

<ref name="Proszynski">{{cite web|first=Jerzy|last=Proszynski|year=2002|url=http://www.salticidae.org/salticid/catalog/attus.htm|title=''Attus''|work=Catalogue of Salticidae (Araneae)|accessdate=2009-11-23}}</ref>

<ref name="Walckenaer">{{cite book|first=Charles Athanase|last=Walckenaer|title=Tableau des aranéides ou caractères essentiels des tribus, genres, familles et races que renferme le genre Aranea de Linné, avec la désignation des espèces comprises dans chacune de ces divisions|location=Paris|language=French|year=1805}}</ref>

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Category:Obsolete spider taxa
Category:Salticidae

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