Metacyrba
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Metacyrba is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders).
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[edit] Name
The genus name is combined from Ancient Greek μετά "after, beside" and the salticid genus Cyrba.
[edit] 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 similis Banks, 1904 — USA, Mexico
- Metacyrba venusta (Chickering, 1946) — Mexico to Venezuela
[edit] References
- Barnes, R.D. (1958): North American jumping spiders of the subfamily Marpissinae (Araneae, Salticidae). American Museum novitates 1867 PDF Abstract (Marpissa, Metacyrba, Menemerus, Maevia)
- Platnick, Norman I. (2007): The world spider catalog, version 8.0. American Museum of Natural History.
