58, see text Attulus is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1889.

Simon gave Attus cinereus Westring, 1861 as the type of the genus.

A. helveolus is now regarded as the same species as Attus distinguendus, described by Simon in 1868, so having priority as a name.

[3][4] A molecular phylogenetic analysis in 2020 restored most sitticine species to a single genus.

)[3] In 2020, Wayne Maddison and co-workers divided the tribe Sitticini into two subtribes, Aillutticina and Sitticina.