Metabus (spider)

{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}

{{About|a genus of spiders||Metabus (disambiguation)}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Metabus

| authority = O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899

| type_species = M. ocellatus

| type_species_authority = (Keyserling, 1864)

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = 4, see text

| synonyms =

• Metargyra F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1903{{cite journal| last=Álvarez-Padilla| first=F.| year=2007| title=Systematics of the spider genus Metabus O. P.-Cambridge, 1899 (Araneoidea: Tetragnathidae) with additions to the tetragnathid fauna of Chile and comments on the phylogeny of Tetragnathidae| journal=Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society| volume=151| issue=2| page=297| doi=10.1111/j.1096-3642.2007.00304.x| s2cid=84810921| doi-access=free}}

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Metabus is a genus of long-jawed orb-weavers that was first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1899.{{citation| last=Pickard-Cambridge| first=O.| year=1899| contribution=Arachnida. Araneida| title=Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology| author-link=Octavius_Pickard-Cambridge}}