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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

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassArachnida
  4. OrderAraneae
  5. FamilySalticidae
Observations recorded3,707

via GBIF

Museum specimens

Specimen records
84
Family
Salticidae
Collections
INHS, CHAS, MCZ, ISM
Recorded in
United States, Mexico, Ecuador

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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

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Metacyrba” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.