Metacyrba
Metacyrba is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Frederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1901.[3] The name is combined from Ancient Greek μετά "after, beside" and the salticid genus Cyrba.
Metacyrba | |
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Female Metacyrba from the Dominican Republic | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
Family: | Salticidae |
Genus: | Metacyrba F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901[1] |
Type species | |
M. taeniola (Hentz, 1846) | |
Species | |
7, see text | |
Synonyms[1] | |
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Species
As of June 2019 it contains seven species and one subspecies, found in South America, Mexico, the United States, Cuba, and on the Greater Antilles:[1]
- Metacyrba alberti Cala-Riquelme, 2017 – Cuba
- Metacyrba floridana Gertsch, 1934 – USA
- Metacyrba insularis (Banks, 1902) – Ecuador (Galapagos Is.)
- Metacyrba pictipes Banks, 1903 – Hispaniola
- Metacyrba punctata (Peckham & Peckham, 1894) – USA to Ecuador
- Metacyrba taeniola (Hentz, 1846) (type) – USA, Mexico
- Metacyrba t. similis Banks, 1904 – USA, Mexico
- Metacyrba venusta (Chickering, 1946) – Mexico to Venezuela
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References
- "Gen. Metacyrba F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-23.
- Edwards, G. B. (2006). "A review of described Metacyrba, the status of Parkella, and notes on Platycryptus and Balmaceda, with a comparison of the genera (Araneae: Salticidae: Marpissinae)". Insecta Mundi. 19: 195.
- Pickard-Cambridge, F. O. (1901), "Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones", Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology
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