Metacyrba | |
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Female Metacyrba from the Dominican Republic | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
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)
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Species | |
7, see text | |
Synonyms [1] | |
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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.
As of June 2019 [update], it contains seven species and one subspecies, found in South America, Mexico, the United States, Cuba, and on the Greater Antilles: [1]