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 "after, beside" and the salticid genus Cyrba.
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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 "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: 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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