Brettus cingulatus
| Brettus cingulatus | |
|---|---|
| Male from Kerala, India. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Genus: | Brettus |
| Species: | B. cingulatus
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| Binomial name | |
| Brettus cingulatus Thorell, 1895
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Brettus cingulatus is a species of jumping spider of the genus Brettus. It is found in India, Sri Lanka, China, Vietnam, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia.
The species was first described in 1895 from a single specimen. The female was originally misidentified as another species, B. albolimbatus. Males and females look very different due to sexual dimorphism. Only in 2017 was the species rediscovered in Nagaon near Mumbai, India, far away from its original discovery in Myanmar.
The epithet "cingulatus" means "wearing a belt" in Latin, "albolimbatus" refers to white limbs.