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Genus Habronattus

Habronattus peckhami? - Habronattus peckhami - male from BC - Habronattus sansoni - male Habronattus amicus - male Habronattus - Habronattus dossenus - male Habronattus klauseri - male Habronattus hirsutus - male male Habronattus cf hirsutus - Habronattus cfhirsutus - male
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Chelicerata (Chelicerates)
Class Arachnida (Arachnids)
Order Araneae (Spiders)
Infraorder Araneomorphae (True Spiders)
No Taxon (Entelegynae)
Family Salticidae (Jumping Spiders)
Genus Habronattus
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Kaston notes that some consider Habronattus to belong to the genus Pellenes. (1)
Explanation of Names
From a Greek word for graceful/pretty plus an old genus name Attus. "Pretty Salticid." (2)
Numbers
ca. 100 spp. in our area
Identification
Leg III longer than leg I. Males of this genus frequently have ornamental or color modifications of leg I and/or III. This is potentially used by the male during courtship.(1)
Revision: see(3)
Range
Widespread(2)
See Also
Print References
Maddison WP, Maddison DR (2016) Two new jumping spider species of the Habronattus clypeatus group (Araneae, Salticidae, Harmochirina). ZooKeys 625: 1-10.

Maddison WP (2017) New species of Habronattus and Pellenes jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae, Harmochirina). ZooKeys 646: 45-72.
Works Cited
1.How to Know the Spiders
B. J. Kaston. 1978. WCB/McGraw-Hill.
2.Spiders of North America: An Identification Manual
D. Ubick, P. Paquin, P.E. Cushing and V. Roth (eds). 2005. American Arachnological Society.
3.A Revision of the Jumping Spider Genus Habronattus F.O.P.-Cambridge (Araneae; Salticidae), with Phenetic and Cladistic Analyses
Charles E. Griswold. 1987. University of California Publications, Entomology Volume 107, February.