Metacyrba

Metacyrba
Female Metacyrba from the Dominican Republic
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Marpissiniae
Genus: Metacyrba
Type species
Attus taeniola
Hentz, 1846
Diversity
6 species

Metacyrba is a spider genus of the family Salticidae (jumping spiders).

Name

The genus name is combined from Ancient Greek μετά "after, beside" and the salticid genus Cyrba.

Species

References

  • Robert D. Barnes (1958). "North American jumping spiders of the subfamily Marpissinae (Araneae, Saltticidae)" (PDF). American Museum Novitates. 1867: 1–50. (Marpissa, Metacyrba, Menemerus, Maevia)
  • Norman I. Platnick (2007): The world spider catalog, version 8.0. American Museum of Natural History.


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