Habronattus F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901

Maddison, Wayne P., 2017, New species of Habronattus and Pellenes jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae, Harmochirina), ZooKeys 646, pp. 45-72 : 46

Genus Habronattus F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901

Type species.

Habrocestum mexicanum Peckham & Peckham, 1896

Notes.

Most of the approximately 100 species (Griswold, 1987) of Habronattus are found in Mexico and the United States, extending into arctic Canada and to southern South America. Habronattus as a whole is easily recognized by the 90° bend ( “elbow”) on the long thin TmA of the palp, though the elbow is lost secondarily in the Habronattus coecatus species group. Several clades of species are recognized as species groups ( Griswold 1987; Maddison and Hedin 2003b), some referred to here in the descriptions.

Two of the new species were studied by Maddison and Hedin (2003b): Habronattus chamela , called " Habronattus sp. (CHMLA)" by Maddison & Hedin, and Habronattus roberti , called " Habronattus sp. (ROBRT)". For the other new species we used informal names in field and lab notebooks: Habronattus aestus as “peñasco” or “ESTU”, Habronattus empyrus as “blondie” or “BLNDI”, Habronattus luminosus as " sunglow " or “SUNGL”, and Pellenes canadensis as " Pellenes cf. levii ". Images and mentions of Habronattus luminosus have appeared on news reports in connection with Zurek et al.'s (2015) study of colour vision, under the name " Habronattus sunglow ".