About Brettus cingulatus Thorell, 1895
Brettus cingulatus is a species of jumping spider that belongs to the genus Brettus. It is distributed across India, Sri Lanka, China, Vietnam, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia. This species was first described in 1895 by Thorell, based on a single specimen. Originally, female individuals of this species were misidentified as belonging to the related species B. albolimbatus. Marked sexual dimorphism causes males and females of this species to look very different from one another. The species was not rediscovered until 2017, when it was found in Nagaon near Mumbai, India, a location far from its original site of discovery in Myanmar. The species epithet "cingulatus" translates to "wearing a belt" in Latin, while the name "albolimbatus" (the species females were initially misassigned to) refers to white limbs.
