Biology:Metacyrba

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Metacyrba
Female Metacyrba from the Dominican Republic
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Metacyrba
F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901[1]
Type species
M. taeniola
(Hentz, 1846)
Species

7, see text

Synonyms[1]
  • Parkella Chickering, 1946[2]

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.

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 venusta (Chickering, 1946) – Mexico to Venezuela

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). Gen. Metacyrba F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2784. Retrieved 2019-07-23. 
  2. 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. 
  3. Pickard-Cambridge, F. O. (1901), "Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones", Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology 

Wikidata ☰ Q1440977 entry