Brancus

Brancus is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1902.[2]

Brancus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Salticidae
Subfamily:	Salticinae
Genus:	Brancus Simon, 1902[1]
Type species
B. muticus Simon, 1902
Species
16, see text

Species

As of June 2019 it contains sixteen species, found only in Africa, Sri Lanka, and India:[1]

• Brancus besanconi (Berland & Millot, 1941) – Guinea, Nigeria
• Brancus blaisei Simon, 1902 – West Africa
• Brancus calebi Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2018 – India, Sri Lanka
• Brancus fuscimanus (Simon, 1903) – West Africa
• Brancus hemmingi Caporiacco, 1949 – Kenya
• Brancus lacrimosus Wesolowska & Edwards, 2012 – Nigeria
• Brancus mondoni (Berland & Millot, 1941) – Ivory Coast, Nigeria
• Brancus mustelus (Simon, 1902) – East, Southern Africa
• Brancus muticus Simon, 1902 (type) – Central, West, Southern Africa
• Brancus nigeriensis Wesolowska & Edwards, 2012 – Nigeria
• Brancus niveimanus (Simon, 1902) – West Africa
• Brancus occidentalis Wesolowska & Russell-Smith, 2011 – Nigeria
• Brancus peckhamorum (Lessert, 1927) – Guinea, Nigeria, Congo
• Brancus poecilus Caporiacco, 1949 – Kenya
• Brancus signatus Dawidowicz & Wesolowska, 2016 – Kenya
• Brancus verdieri Berland & Millot, 1941 – Guinea

References

1. "Gen. Brancus Simon, 1902". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-05.
2. Simon, E. (1902). "Etudes arachnologiques. 31e Mémoire. LI. Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles de la famille des Salticidae (suite)". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 71: 389–421.