Brettus anchorum Wanless 1979

Ahmed, Javed, Khalap, Rajashree, Hill, David E., N., Sumukha J. & Mohan, Krishna, 2017, First record of Brettus cingulatus from India, with a review of Brettus in South and Southeast Asia (Araneae: Salticidae: Spartaeinae), Peckhamia 151 (1), pp. 1-13 : 3

Brettus anchorum Wanless 1979

♀ [3] Brettus anchorum Wanless 1979 ( India, Madras, Nilghiri Hills)

Brettus anchorum Wanless 1984 ( India, Madras)

♂ [4] Brettus anchorum Wanless 1984 ( India, Madras, Ootacamund)

♂ ♀ [5] Brettus anchorum Jastrzębski 1997 ( Nepal, Gorkha Distr. , Arughat - Suteo)

♂ ♀ [6] Brettus anchorum Sen, Dhali, Saha & Raychaudhuri 2015 (Khunia, Gorumara National Park, West Bengal) Brettus anchorum Dhali, Saha & Raychaudhuri 2017 (Khunia, Gorumara National Park, West Bengal)

B. anchorum can be expected to occur across India, but is presently only documented from several localities ranging from Madras in the south north to West Bengal and Nepal. The male pedipalp has a series of small medial apophyses and a small hook-like distal apophysis of the tegulum. There is a single spermatheca on either side of the midline near the eipgastric groove of the female (extended laterally), giving the epigynum a distinctive "anchor" shape. The male carapace is amber in colour with broad white marginal bands, each with a brown dorsal edge. The clypeus is white, and the chelicerae are amber with a basal band of white setae. There are longer black fringes under femur and tibia I, and short black fringes under femur and tibia II. Legs I are orange-brown, and the other legs are yellow-brown. The female has a pale orange carapace with a yellow eye region and broad marginal bands comprised of low white setae or scales. There are thin white setae on the clypeus. The opisthosoma is yellow-white. There is a fringe of long orange-brown setae beneath the distal femur to tibia of legs I. The pedipalp is light yellow. As with B. adonis , the appearance of living animals needs to be documented in detail.