Titanattus

Titanattus is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by George and Elizabeth Peckham in 1885.^[3] The name is a combination of "Titan" and the common salticid suffix -attus. The genus Agelista was accepted as a synonym of Titanattus in 2017.^[2]

Titanattus
Titanattus euryphaessa, Brazil
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Salticidae
Subfamily:	Salticinae
Genus:	Titanattus Peckham & Peckham, 1885[1]
Type species
T. saevus Peckham & Peckham, 1885
Species
See text
Synonyms[1]
Agelista Simon, 1900[2]

Species

As of 2021^[update] it contains eleven species, found in Central America, Venezuela, Ecuador, Argentina, Paraguay, and Brazil:^[1]

• Titanattus andinus (Simon, 1900) – Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina
• Titanattus cordia Edwards & Baert, 2018 – Ecuador (Galapagos Is.)
• Titanattus cretatus Chickering, 1946 – Panama
• Titanattus euryphaessa Bustamante & Ruiz, 2017 – Brazil, Ecuador
• Titanattus notabilis (Mello-Leitão, 1943) – Brazil, Argentina
• Titanattus novarai Caporiacco, 1955 – Venezuela
• Titanattus paganus Chickering, 1946 – Panama
• Titanattus pallidus Mello-Leitão, 1943 – Brazil
• Titanattus parvus (Mello-Leitão, 1945) – Argentina
• Titanattus pegaseus Simon, 1900 – Brazil
• Titanattus saevus Peckham & Peckham, 1885 (type) – Guatemala