Metacyrba Explained

Metacyrba is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Frederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1901. The name is combined from Ancient Greek Greek, Modern (1453-);: [[:wikt:μετά|μετά]] "after, beside" and the salticid genus Cyrba.

Species

, 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

External links

• Painting of M. punctata
• Painting of M. taeniola

Notes and References

1. Gen. Metacyrba F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-07-23. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2. Gloor. Daniel. Nentwig. Wolfgang. Blick. Theo. Kropf. Christian.