''Metacyrba'' is a

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jumping spiders Jumping spiders are a group of spiders that constitute the family Salticidae. , this family contained over 600 described genera and over 6,000 described species, making it the largest family of spiderscomprising 13% of spider species. Jumping s ...

that was first described by

Frederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge Frederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge (3 November 1860 – 9 February 1905) was an English arachnologist. He is sometimes confused with his uncle, Octavius Pickard-Cambridge (1828–1917), who was also an arachnologist and from whom F. O. ...

in 1901. The name is combined from

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"after, beside" and the salticid genus ''

Cyrba ''Cyrba'' is a genus of spiders in the family Salticidae (jumping spiders). The genus was erected by Hippolyte Lucas in 1846. Description ''Cyrba'' spiders are small to medium size spiders that are usually brightly colored. Their cephalothora ...

''.

Species

, it contains seven species and one subspecies, found in South America,

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, the

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, and on the Greater Antilles: *''Metacyrba alberti'' Cala-Riquelme, 2017 –

*''Metacyrba floridana'' Willis J. Gertsch, Gertsch, 1934 – USA *''Metacyrba insularis'' (Nathan Banks, Banks, 1902) – Ecuador (Galapagos Is.) *''Metacyrba pictipes'' Banks, 1903 – Hispaniola *''Metacyrba punctata'' (Peckham & Peckham, 1894) – USA to Ecuador *''Metacyrba taeniola'' (Hentz, 1846) (Type_species, type) – USA,

**''Metacyrba taeniola, Metacyrba t. similis'' Banks, 1904 – USA, Mexico *''Metacyrba venusta'' (Arthur M. Chickering, Chickering, 1946) – Mexico to Venezuela

References

External links

Painting of ''M. punctata''

Salticidae genera Salticidae Spiders of North America Spiders of South America Taxa named by Frederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge {{Jumping-spider-stub