Metacyrba

{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Metacyrba

| image = DOM09-8917_Metacyrba_female.jpg

| image_caption = Female Metacyrba from the Dominican Republic

| authority = F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901

| type_species = M. taeniola

| type_species_authority = (Hentz, 1846)

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = 7, see text

| synonyms =

  • Parkella Chickering, 1946{{cite journal| last=Edwards| first=G. B.| year=2006| title=A review of described Metacyrba, the status of Parkella, and notes on Platycryptus and Balmaceda, with a comparison of the genera (Araneae: Salticidae: Marpissinae)| journal=Insecta Mundi| volume=19| page=195}}

| synonyms_ref =

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Metacyrba is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Frederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1901.{{citation| last=Pickard-Cambridge| first=F. O.| year=1901| contribution=Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones| title=Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology| author-link=Frederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge}} The name is combined from Ancient Greek {{lang|el|μετά}} "after, beside" and the salticid genus Cyrba.

Species

{{as of|2019|06}}, it contains seven species and one subspecies, found in South America, Mexico, the United States, Cuba, and on the Greater Antilles:{{cite journal| title=Gen. Metacyrba F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| accessdate=2019-07-23| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2784| doi=10.24436/2| last1=Gloor| first1=Daniel| last2=Nentwig| first2=Wolfgang| last3=Blick| first3=Theo| last4=Kropf| first4=Christian}}

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