Metacyrba is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Frederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1901. The name is combined from Ancient Greek "after, beside" and the salticid genus Cyrba.
Species
, it contains seven species and one subspecies, found in South America, Mexico, the United States, Cuba, and on the Greater Antilles:
- Metacyrba alberti <small>Cala-Riquelme, 2017</small> â Cuba
- Metacyrba floridana <small>Gertsch, 1934</small> â USA
- Metacyrba insularis <small>(Banks, 1902)</small> â Ecuador (Galapagos Is.)
- Metacyrba pictipes <small>Banks, 1903</small> â Hispaniola
- Metacyrba punctata <small>(Peckham & Peckham, 1894)</small> â USA to Ecuador
- Metacyrba taeniola <small>(Hentz, 1846)</small> (type) â USA, Mexico
- Metacyrba t. similis <small>Banks, 1904</small> â USA, Mexico
- Metacyrba venusta <small>(Chickering, 1946)</small> â Mexico to Venezuela
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