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

Breda modesta (Taczanowski, 1878)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032415

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Described:

Distribution: Peru, Brazil, Guyana, Paraguay, Argentina

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Museo de La Plata (MLP), La Plata, Argentina m (14999) of Thianioides spinimanu - (Galiano, 1981a)
Paratype: Museo de La Plata (MLP), La Plata, Argentina 1m (15000) of Thianioides spinimanu - (Galiano, 1981a)
Holotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK f (2229) of Breda leucoprocta - (Galiano, 1980b)

Taxonomic References

Marptusa modesta Taczanowski, 1878a: 320 (Dmf) Original description

Balmaceda modesta Peckham & Peckham, 1894a: 101

Breda leucoprocta Mello-Leitão, 1940c: 184, f. 15-16 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032569]

Thianioides spinimanu Mello-Leitão, 1941d: 190, f. 84, pl. 12, f. 56 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032576]

Breda spinimanu Galiano, 1981a: 15 (T from Thianioides)

Breda modesta Ruiz & Brescovit, 2013: 419, f. 36, 68-72 (mf, T from Balmaceda, S of Breda leucoprocta and B. spinimanu)

Breda modesta Rubio, Baigorria & Scioscia, 2018: 115, f. 79, 85, 86A-B, 87 (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 (1940c). Spiders of the Guiana forest collected by O. W. Richards. Arquivos de Zoologia do Estado de Sao Paulo 2: 175-197. -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1941d). Las arañas de Córdoba, La Rioja, Catamarca, Tucumán, Salta y Jujuy colectadas por los Profesores Birabén. Revista del Museo de La Plata (N.S., Zool.) 2: 99-198. -- Show included taxa

Peckham, G. W. & Peckham, E. G. (1894a). Spiders of the Marptusa group. Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin 2(2): 83-156. -- 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

Taczanowski, L. (1878a). Les Aranéides du Pérou. Famille des Attides. Bulletin de la Société Imperiale des Naturalists de Moscou 53: 278-374. -- 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