Macaroeris
{{Short description|Genus of spiders}}
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| image = Macaroeris_nidicolens_male_top.jpg
| image_caption = Male M. nidicolens from Cologne, Germany
| taxon = Macaroeris
| authority = Wunderlich, 1992
| type_species = Aranea nidicolens
| type_species_authority = Walckenaer, 1802
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = See text.}}
Macaroeris is a spider genus of the jumping spider family, Salticidae.
Name
The genus name is combined from Macaronesia, where most species of the genus occur, and the salticid spider genus Eris.{{Citation needed|date=June 2017}}
Species
As of June 2017, the World Spider Catalog lists the following species in the genus:{{cite web|author=World Spider Catalog|year=2017|title=Gen. Macaroeris Wunderlich, 1992|website=World Spider Catalog|publisher=Natural History Museum|place=Bern|url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2752|version=18.0|accessdate=20 June 2017}}
- 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, 1885) – 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
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External links
- [http://salticus.zoology.ubc.ca/salticid/diagnost/mac-eris/dili-hol-ph.htm Photograph of M. diligens]
- [http://salticus.zoology.ubc.ca/salticid/diagnost/mac-eris/nid-hol-ph.htm Photograph of M. nidicolens]
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