Breda (spider)

Breda
Male B. akypueruna
Female B. melvina
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Salticidae
Subfamily:	Salticinae
Genus:	Breda Peckham & Peckham, 1894 [1]
Type species
B. milvina (C. L. Koch, 1846)
Species
13, see text
Synonyms [1]
Bredops Mello-Leitão, 1944 [2] Oserictops Mello-Leitão, 1941 [3] ParadescansoVellard, 1924 [4] Thianioides Mello-Leitão, 1941 [3]

Breda is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by George Peckham & Elizabeth Peckham in 1894. ^[5]

Species

As of June 2019 ^[update] it contains thirteen species, found in South America, Panama, Mexico, and on Trinidad: ^[1]

• Breda akypueruna Ruiz & Brescovit, 2013 – Brazil
• Breda apicalis Simon, 1901 – Ecuador, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina
• Breda bicruciata (Mello-Leitão, 1943) – Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina
• Breda bistriata (C. L. Koch, 1846) – Brazil, Argentina
• Breda lubomirskii (Taczanowski, 1878) – Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil
• Breda milvina (C. L. Koch, 1846) (type) – Mexico, Panama, Trinidad, Brazil, Bolivia
• Breda modesta (Taczanowski, 1878) – Peru, Brazil, Guyana, Paraguay, Argentina
• Breda nanica Ruiz & Brescovit, 2013 – Brazil
• Breda notata Chickering, 1946 – Panama
• Breda oserictops (Mello-Leitão, 1941) – Argentina
• Breda paraensis Ruiz & Brescovit, 2013 – Brazil
• Breda tristis Mello-Leitão, 1944 – Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina
• Breda variolosa Simon, 1901 – Brazil

References

1. Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Breda Peckham & Peckham, 1894". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-07-05.
2. Galiano, M. E. (1980). "Catalogo de los especimenes tipicos de Salticidae (Araneae) descriptos por Candido F. de Mello-Leitão. Primera parte". Physis, Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Ciencias Naturales. 39: 36.
3. Galiano, M. E. (1981). "Catalogo de los especimenes tipicos de Salticidae (Araneae) descriptos por Candido F. de Mello-Leitão. Segunda parte". Physis, Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Ciencias Naturales. 39: 12.
4. Ruiz, G. R. S.; Brescovit, A. D. (2013). "Revision of Breda and proposal of a new genus (Araneae: Salticidae)". Zootaxa. 3664 (4): 403. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3664.4.1. PMID   26266312.
5. Peckham, G. W.; Peckham, E. G. (1894). "Spiders of the Marptusa group". Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin. 2: 85–156.