Breda (spider)

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Breda
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Male Breda akypueruna
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Domain: Eukaryota
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]

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

Species

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

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References

  1. 1 2 3 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. 1 2 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.