| Metacyrba | |
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| Female Metacyrba from the Dominican Republic | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Salticinae |
| Genus: | Metacyrba F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901 |
| Type species | |
| M. taeniola (Hentz, 1846) | |
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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 μετά "after, beside" and the salticid genus Cyrba.
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:
- 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
References
- ^ Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Metacyrba F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 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
External links
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