All jumping spiders have four pairs of eyes, with the anterior median pair being particularly large. They are known for the best vision among anthropods and use it in courtship, hunting and navigation.Jumping spiders are generally recognized by their eye pattern. "Dr Mohan explained that while researching the species, the team realized that another related species, called Brettus albolimbatus, was not a separate species at all, but rather a female Brettus cingulatus - a fact which had been overlooked by other arachnologists in the country, some who even photographed the two together. "Not only was Brettus cingulatus `rediscovered' (in a manner of speaking; the spider had since been photographed on multiple occasions, by several amateur nature photographers and posted on various fora, except that no one bothered to find out if it had a name, never raised questions, nor collected a specimen which could be identified by an arachnologist) from - and in - India, 122 years after Thorell (Swedish arachnologist Tord Tamerlan Teodor Thorell [1830 1901]) first described it. MANGALURU: A team of Indian researchers has finally 'rediscovered' a jumping spider , first described in 1895 from a single specimen then found in Burma (now Myanmar).The spider, a species called Brettus cingulatus , was discovered in India in a garden that surrounds one of the researchers, Rajashree Khalap 's beachfacing holiday home in Nagaon, a coastal town in the North Konkan region of Maharashtra.Environmentalist and surgeon from Moodabidri, Dr Krishna Mohan, who was part of the research team, told Mirror, "Brettus cingulatus was 'rediscovered' and reported from India, a whopping 122 years after it was first described in 1895, and also reported as a new record from two other countries as well -Bangladesh and Malaysia -owing to our research.
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