Metacyrba
| Metacyrba | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Male Metacyrba floridana | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Marpissiniae |
| Genus: | Metacyrba F. O. P-Cambridge, 1901 |
| Type species | |
| Attus taeniola Hentz, 1846 | |
| Diversity | |
| 6 species | |
Metacyrba is a spider genus of the family Salticidae (jumping spiders).
Name
The genus name is combined from Ancient Greek μετά "after, beside" and the salticid genus Cyrba.
Species
- Metacyrba floridana Gertsch, 1934 — USA
- Metacyrba insularis (Banks, 1902) — Galapagos Islands
- Metacyrba pictipes Banks, 1903 — Hispaniola
- Metacyrba punctata (Peckham & Peckham, 1894) — USA to Ecuador
- Metacyrba taeniola (Hentz, 1846) — USA, Mexico
- Metacyrba taeniola taeniola (Hentz, 1846) — western USA, northwestern Mexico
- Metacyrba taeniola similis Banks, 1904 — eastern USA, northeastern Mexico
- Metacyrba venusta (Chickering, 1946) — Mexico to Venezuela
References
- Robert D. Barnes (1958). "North American jumping spiders of the subfamily Marpissinae (Araneae, Saltticidae)" (PDF). American Museum Novitates 1867: 1–50. (Marpissa, Metacyrba, Menemerus, Maevia)
- Norman I. Platnick (2007): The world spider catalog, version 8.0. American Museum of Natural History.
External links
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