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Genus: Breda G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1894 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Breda apicalis Simon, 1901

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032563

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Described:

Distribution: French Guiana, Ecuador, Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina

External Resources*: Jumping Spiders of the World Metzner (2026) | Salticidae Database Prószyński (2025) | GBIF

Type Repository Provide information

It is widely assumed that most of the type material from Simon can be found in the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris, France -

Taxonomic References

Breda apicalis Simon, 1901c: 156 (Dmf) Original description

Paradescanso fallax Vellard, 1924b: 34, pl. 6, f. 28-32 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035174]

Breda quinquedentata Badcock, 1932: 42, f. 33 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032575]

Breda apicalis Galiano, 1963a: 313, pl. XII, f. 8-9 (m)

Breda apicalis Ruiz & Brescovit, 2013: 408, f. 3, 20-23, 33, 47-51 (mf, S of Breda quinquedentata and Paradescanso fallax)

Breda apicalis Rubio, Baigorria & Scioscia, 2018: 111, f. 38B, 80, 81A-B, 82 (mf)

References

Badcock, H. D. (1932). Reports of an expedition to Paraguay and Brazil in 1926–7, supported by the Trustees of the Percy Sladen Memorial Fund and the Executive Committee of the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland. Arachnida from the Paraguayan Chaco. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 38(257): 1-48. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1932.tb00987.x -- Show included taxa

Galiano, M. E. (1963a). Las especies americanas de arañas de la familia Salticidae descriptas por Eugène Simon. Redescripciones basadas en los ejemplares típicos. Physis, Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Ciencias Naturales (C) 23(68): 273-470. -- Show included taxa

Rubio, G. D., Baigorria, J. E. M. & Scioscia, C. L. (2018). Arañas saltícidas de Misiones. Guía para la identificación (tribus basales). Ediciones Fundación Azara, Universidad Maimónides, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, 208 pp. -- Show included taxa

Ruiz, G. R. S. & Brescovit, A. D. (2013). Revision of Breda and proposal of a new genus (Araneae: Salticidae). Zootaxa 3664: 401-433. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3664.4.1 -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1901c). Descriptions d'arachnides nouveaux de la famille des Attidae (suite). Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 45: 141-161. -- Show included taxa

Vellard, J. (1924b). Un nouveau genre d'araignées Salticidae du groupe des Formiciformes. Archivos do Instituto Vital Brazil 2: 33-35. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Metzner, H. (2026). Jumping spiders (Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae) of the world. Online at https://www.jumping-spiders.com.

Prószyński, J. (2025). Salticidae (Araneae) Genera of the World "a management tool for developing a new system of Salticidae" - a scrollable e-Textbook. Version December 20th, 2025, online at http://www.salticidae.pl.

GBIF.org (2026). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [8 January 2026]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2026-02-23	Species distribution update	Courtial, Picard & Pétillon, 2026	Old value
2025-08-16	New taxonomic reference entry	Rubio, Baigorria & Scioscia, 2018