# Metacyrba

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***Metacyrba*** is a [genus](/source/Genus) of [jumping spiders](/source/Salticidae) that was first described by [Frederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge](/source/Frederick_Octavius_Pickard-Cambridge) in 1901.[3] The name is combined from [Ancient Greek](/source/Ancient_Greek) [μετά](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%BC%CE%B5%CF%84%CE%AC) "after, beside" and the salticid genus *[Cyrba](/source/Cyrba)*.

## Species

As of June 2019, it contains seven species and one subspecies, found in South America, [Mexico](/source/Mexico), the [United States](/source/United_States), [Cuba](/source/Cuba), and on the [Greater Antilles](/source/Greater_Antilles):[1]

- *[Metacyrba alberti](/source/Metacyrba_alberti)* Cala-Riquelme, 2017 – [Cuba](/source/Cuba)
- *[Metacyrba floridana](/source/Metacyrba_floridana)* [Gertsch](/source/Willis_J._Gertsch), 1934 – USA
- *[Metacyrba insularis](/source/Metacyrba_insularis)* ([Banks](/source/Nathan_Banks), 1902) – [Ecuador](/source/Ecuador) (Galapagos Is.)
- *[Metacyrba pictipes](/source/Metacyrba_pictipes)* Banks, 1903 – [Hispaniola](/source/Hispaniola)
- *[Metacyrba punctata](/source/Metacyrba_punctata)* (Peckham & Peckham, 1894) – USA to Ecuador
- *[Metacyrba taeniola](/source/Metacyrba_taeniola)* (Hentz, 1846) ([type](/source/Type_species)) – USA, [Mexico](/source/Mexico) - *[Metacyrba t. similis](/source/Metacyrba_taeniola)* Banks, 1904 – USA, Mexico
- *[Metacyrba venusta](/source/Metacyrba_venusta)* ([Chickering](/source/Arthur_M._Chickering), 1946) – Mexico to Venezuela

## References

1. Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). ["Gen. Metacyrba F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901"](http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2784). *World Spider Catalog Version 20.0*. Natural History Museum Bern. [doi:10.24436/2](https://doi.org/10.24436/2). Retrieved 2019-07-23.

1. Edwards, G. B. (2006). "A review of described *Metacyrba*, the status of *Parkella*, and notes on *Platycryptus* and *Balmaceda*, with a comparison of the genera (Araneae: Salticidae: Marpissinae)". *Insecta Mundi*. **19**: 195.

1. Pickard-Cambridge, F. O. (1901), "Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones", "Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology"

## External links

- [Painting of *M. punctata*](http://salticidae.org/salticid/diagnost/metacyrb/punct-ol.htm)
- [Painting of *M. taeniola*](http://salticidae.org/salticid/diagnost/metacyrb/taeni-ol.htm)

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