Macaroeris
Macaroeris is a spider genus of the jumping spider family, Salticidae.
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| male M. nidicolens from Cologne, Germany | |
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| Genus: | Macaroeris Wunderlich, 1992 |
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| Aranea nidicolens Walckenaer, 1802 | |
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| Diversity | |
| 9 species | |
Name
The genus name is combined from Macaronesia, where most species of the genus occur, and the salticid spider genus Eris.
Species
As of June 2017, the World Spider Catalog lists the following species in the genus:[1]
- Macaroeris albosignata Schmidt & Krause, 1996 – Canary Islands
- Macaroeris asiatica Logunov & Rakov, 1998 – Central Asia
- Macaroeris cata (Blackwall, 1867) – Madeira, Romania
- Macaroeris desertensis Wunderlich, 1992 – Madeira
- Macaroeris diligens (Blackwall, 1867) – Madeira, Canary Islands
- Macaroeris flavicomis (Simon, 1884) – Greece, Turkey, Ukraine
- Macaroeris litoralis Wunderlich, 1992 – Canary Islands
- Macaroeris moebi (Bösenberg, 1895) – Canary Islands, Savage Islands, Madeira, China
- Macaroeris nidicolens (Walckenaer, 1802) – Europe to Central Asia
References
- World Spider Catalog (2017). "Gen. Macaroeris Wunderlich, 1992". World Spider Catalog. 18.0. Bern: Natural History Museum. Retrieved 20 June 2017.
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