World Spider Catalog

Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Family | ACCEPTED

N.B.: considered a senior synonym of Lyssomanidae Blackwall, 1877 by Galiano, 1976b: 67; for illustrations of scale morphology of about 60 species, see Hill, 1979; for the phylogeny within the family see Maddison & Hedin, 2003b, Maddison, 2015, Maddison et al., 2017, Prószyński, 2017b and Zhang et al., 2024f; the subfamilies Asemoneinae Maddison, 2015, Eupoinae Maddison, 2015, Hisponinae Simon 1901, Lyssomaninae, Onomastinae Maddison, 2015, Salticinae and Spartaeinae Wanless, 1984 are confirmed by Zhang et al., 2024f: 347.

Gen. Brettus Thorell, 1895 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:02862

type Brettus cingulatus Thorell, 1895; gender masculine

N.B.: removed from the synonymy of Portia Karsch, 1878 by Wanless, 1978f: 83 (contra Simon, 1901a: 403).

Transferred to other genera:

Brettus gravelyi Caleb, 2018 -- see Megaeupoa

Brettus martini Simon, 1900 -- see Portia

In synonymy:

Brettus albolimbatus Simon, 1900 = Brettus cingulatus Thorell, 1895 (Ahmed et al., 2017: 3)

Brettus foveatus (Strand, 1912) = Brettus cingulatus Thorell, 1895 (Strand, 1912a: 148, sub Portia)

Brettus semifimbriatus Simon, 1901 = Brettus cingulatus Thorell, 1895 (Wanless, 1979a: 188)

Brettus adonis Simon, 1900 | | Sri Lanka, India? urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032581

Brettus adonis Simon, 1900d: 32 (Df) Original description

Portia adonis Simon, 1901a: 402

Brettus adonis Wanless, 1979a: 186, f. 1B, D, F, H, 2D-E, 3A (Dm, f, T from Portia)

Brettus cf. adonis Caleb, 2020b: 15730, f. 15D, 27N (f)

Brettus anchorum Wanless, 1979 | | India, Nepal, China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032583

Brettus anchorum Wanless, 1979a: 188, f. 2F, 3B, 4C-D (Df) Original description

Brettus anchorum Wanless, 1984a: 181, f. 23A-H (Dm)

Brettus anchorum Jastrzebski, 1997c: 702, f. 1-9 (mf)

Brettus anchorum Sen et al., 2015: 43, f. 157-164, pl. 14 (m)

Brettus anchorum Dhali, Saha & Raychaudhuri, 2017: 39, f. 110-115, pl. 16 (m)

Brettus anchorum Wang et al., 2023e: 4, f. 1A-D (f)

Brettus celebensis (Merian, 1911) | | Indonesia (Sulawesi) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032584

Macopaeus celebensis Merian, 1911: 304, f. P1, Q1 (Df) Original description

Brettus celebensis Wanless, 1980a: 220, f. 2A-D (f, T from Macopaeus)

Brettus cingulatus Thorell, 1895 | | India, Sri Lanka, China, Vietnam, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia (Sumatra) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032585 TYPE SPECIES

Brettus cingulatus Thorell, 1895b: 355 (Dm) Original description

Brettus albolimbatus Simon, 1900d: 31 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032582]

Brettus semifimbriatus Simon, 1900d: 31 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:064844]

Portia semifimbriata Simon, 1901a: 401, f. 416-418

Portia albolimbata Simon, 1901a: 402

Portia foveata Strand, 1912a: 148 (invalid provisional name) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:064845]

Portia semifimbriata Strand, 1912a: 148 (S of Portia foveata)

Portia cingulata Reimoser, 1925: 90

Brettus cingulatus Wanless, 1978f: 83 (T from Portia)

Brettus albolimbatus Wanless, 1979a: 188, f. 2C, 3C-D, 4A-B (f, T from Portia, S of Brettus semifimbriatus, S of Portia foveata confirmed)

Brettus cingulatus Wanless, 1979a: 185, f. 1A, C, E, G, 2A-B (m)

Brettus cingulatus Wanless, 1984a: 181, f. 32A-C, 33C-E, 36C-D (m)

Brettus albolimbatus Peng & Kim, 1998: 411, f. 1A-C (f)

Brettus albolimbatus Sen et al., 2015: 43, f. 165-169, pl. 14 (f)

Brettus albolimbatus Roy, Saha & Raychaudhuri, 2016: 23, f. 18A-E, 25G, 27P (f)

Brettus albolimbatus Dhali, Saha & Raychaudhuri, 2017: 40, f. 116-122, pl. 16 (f)

Brettus cingulatus Ahmed et al., 2017: 3, f. 2.1-4, 3.1-7, 4.1-8, 5.1-11, 6.1-11, 8.1-4 (m, S of Brettus albolimbatus)

Brettus cingulatus Patil & Uniyal, 2018a: 105, f. 1A-G (mf)

Brettus albolimbatus Peng, 2020: 48, f. 14a-c (f)

Brettus cingulatus Tam et al., 2021: 1, f. 1-9 (mf)

Brettus cingulatus Caleb et al., 2025a: 89, f. 9A-I (mf)

Brettus cingulatus Nichat & Nayak, 2026: 97, f. 2-13 (f)

Brettus madagascarensis (G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1903) | | Madagascar urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032586

Macopaeus madagascarensis Peckham & Peckham, 1903: 182, pl. 19, f. 5 (Df) Original description

Brettus madagascarensis Wanless, 1980a: 221, f. 3A-D (f, T from Macopaeus)

Brettus storki Logunov & Azarkina, 2008 | | Brunei (Borneo) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:041771

Brettus storki Logunov & Azarkina, 2008a: 98, f. 1-10 (Dmf) Original description