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Genus: Brettus Thorell, 1895 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Brettus adonis Simon, 1900

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032581

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Described:

Distribution: Sri Lanka, India?

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

Type Repository Provide information

Lectotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France f (20416) - (Wanless, 1979a)

Taxonomic References

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)

References

Caleb, J. T. D. (2020b). Spider (Arachnida: Araneae) fauna of the scrub jungle in the Madras Christian College campus, Chennai, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 12(7): 15711-15766. doi: 10.11609/jott.5758.12.7.15711-15766 -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1900d). Etudes arachnologiques. 30e Mémoire. XLVII. Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles de la famille des Attidae. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 69: 27-61. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1901a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome second. Roret, Paris, pp. 381-668. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.51973 [[last page with detailed publication dates of the single parts]] -- Show included taxa

Wanless, F. R. (1979a). A revision of the spider genus Brettus (Araneae: Salticidae). Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Zool.) 35(2): 183-190. -- 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
2020-05-18	New taxonomic reference entry	Caleb, 2020b
2020-05-18	Species distribution update	Caleb, 2020b	Old value