''Bryantella'' is a genus of

jumping spiders Jumping spiders are a group of spiders that constitute the family Salticidae. As of 2019, this family contained over 600 described genera and over 6,000 described species, making it the largest family of spiders at 13% of all species. Jumping spi ...

that was first described by

Arthur Merton Chickering Arthur Merton Chickering (March 23, 1887 - May 24, 1974) was a U.S. arachnologist. Biography He was born on March 23, 1887, in North Danville, Vermont. He studied in Yale University under Alexander Petrunkevitch until 1913. In 1916 he earned a ...

in 1946. it contains only two species, found only in Brazil, Argentina, and Panama: '' B. smaragda'' and '' B. speciosa''. This genus was named in honour of

Elizabeth B. Bryant Elizabeth Bangs Bryant (April 7, 1875 – January 6, 1953) was an American arachnologist. She worked at the Museum of Comparative Zoology in Cambridge, Massachusetts and was a close acquaintance of James Henry Emerton.Deichmann, Elisabeth (19 ...

References

Salticidae Salticidae genera Spiders of South America {{Jumping-spider-stub