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

Breda bicruciata (Mello-Leitão, 1943)

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Described:

Distribution: Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019) Menemerus bicruciatus Mello-Leitão, 1943, (42472); 1 m (destroyed by the fire 2018) -

Taxonomic References

Menemerus bicruciatus Mello-Leitão, 1943a: 226, f. 52 (Dm) Original description

Breda bicruciata Galiano, 1981a: 11 (T from Menemerus)

Breda bicruciata Ruiz & Brescovit, 2013: 409, f. 1-2, 35, 52-56 (m, Df)

Breda bicruciata Rubio, Baigorria & Scioscia, 2018: 113, f. 83, 84A-C (mf)

References

Galiano, M. E. (1981a). 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 (Secc. C) 39: 11-17. -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1943a). Catálogo das aranhas do Rio Grande do Sul. Arquivos do Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro 37: 147-245, 24 pls. -- 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

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
2025-08-16	New taxonomic reference entry	Rubio, Baigorria & Scioscia, 2018