Species Attulus floricola

See the World Spider Catalog. Formerly in the genus Sitticus and Sittiflor and Calositticus. A. floricola palustris was the recognized New World subspecies but has now been synonymized with other A. floricola.

Calositticus floricola

This "species" has a somewhat complicated taxonomic history, likely to be imperfectly summarized here: Sitticus sylvestris was first described by Emerton in 1891 as Attus sylvestris, who specifically compared it to the similar Sitticus palustris (Attus palustris) and concluded that although the male palpi were similar, sylvestris differed from palustris in several somatic characters, including dorsal coloration and markings. The Peckhams later synonymized palustris and sylvestris in their 1909 revision paper (1), apparently with Emerton's agreement, and this putative species does not currently appear in the World Spider Catalog (circa 2015). However, currently experts in North American salticid taxonomy such as Wayne Maddison apparently recognize S. sylvestris as a separate species. Although this opinion has not been formally published, it has been quoted in the European literature, eg. in Logunov and Kronestedt 1997: "Also, S. sylvestris Emerton has been recognised by W. P. Maddison as a separate species, being closely related to S. caricis (Westring) (B. Cutler, pers. comm.)". Further complication was added by Proszynski, 2017. This paper indicated this species was separate and moved it to this genus without providing rationale for it being split from S. floricola palustris.

Attulus palustris

Attulus floricola palustris

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