Macaroeris cata (Blackwall, 1867)

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Type Repository Provide information
  • Holotype: Oxford University Museum of Natural History (OUMNH) = Hope Entomological Collections Oxford (HECO), Oxford, UK j (absent) - (Logunov & Schäfer, 2025)
  • Neotype: Oxford University Museum of Natural History (OUMNH) = Hope Entomological Collections Oxford (HECO), Oxford, UK f - (Logunov & Schäfer, 2025)
Taxonomic References
Salticus catus Blackwall, 1867b: 206 (Dj) Original description
Dendryphantes catus Kulczyński, 1899: 445, pl. 9, f. 136-138, 142-143, 147 (Dmf)
Dendryphantes curtus Simon, 1901a: 625 (lapsus)
Dendryphantes catus Kulczyński, 1911a: 71, pl. 2, f. 95 (f)
Dendryphantes catus Denis, 1962a: 52, f. 45 (f)
Macaroeris catus Wunderlich, 1992a: 516, f. 830-833 (mf, T from Dendryphantes)
Dendryphantes catus Fuhn & Gherasim, 1995: 76, f. 29A-C (f)
Macaroeris cata Logunov & Schäfer, 2025: 374, f. 69-107 (mf)
References

Blackwall, J. (1867b). Notes on spiders, with descriptions of several species supposed to be new to arachnologists. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (3) 20(117): 202-213. doi: 10.1080/00222936708694114 -- Show included taxa

Denis, J. (1962a). Les araignées de l'archipel de Madère (Mission du Professeur Vandel). Publicações do Instituto Zoologia Doutor Augusto Nobre 79: 9-118, pl. 1-12. -- Show included taxa

Fuhn, I. E. & Gherasim, V. F. (1995). Familia Salticidae. Fauna Romaniei (Arachnida) 5(5): 1-301. -- Show included taxa

Kulczyński, W. (1899). Arachnoidea opera Rev. E. Schmitz collecta in insulis Maderianis et in insulis Selvages dictis. Rozprawy i Sprawozdania z Posiedzen Wydzialu Matematyczno Przyrodniczego Akademji Umiejetnosci, Krakow 36: 319-461, pl. 6-9. -- Show included taxa

Kulczyński, W. (1911a). Fragmenta Arachnologica. XVI, XVII. Bulletin International de l'Academie des Sciences de Cracovie 1911: 12-75. -- Show included taxa

Logunov, D. V. & Schäfer, M. (2025). A review of the jumping spider genus Macaroeris Wunderlich, 1992 (Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae: Dendryphantini). Arachnology 20(3): 364-409. doi: 10.13156/arac.2024.20.3.7 -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1901a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome second. Roret, Paris, pp. 381-668. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.51973 [[last page with detailed publication dates of the single parts]] -- Show included taxa

Wunderlich, J. (1992a). Die Spinnen-Fauna der Makaronesischen Inseln: Taxonomie, Ökologie, Biogeographie und Evolution. Beiträge zur Araneologie 1: 1-619. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Metzner, H. (2026). Jumping spiders (Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae) of the world. Online at https://www.jumping-spiders.com.

Prószyński, J. (2025). Salticidae (Araneae) Genera of the World "a management tool for developing a new system of Salticidae" - a scrollable e-Textbook. Version December 20th, 2025, online at http://www.salticidae.pl.

Nentwig, W., Blick, T., Bosmans, R., Kropf, C., Stäubli, A.: Spiders of Europe. www.araneae.nmbe.ch. Version 01.2026. doi: 10.24436/1

GBIF.org (2026). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [8 January 2026]

Edit History
Date Type Reference Old value Comment
2025-11-02 New taxonomic reference entry Logunov & Schäfer, 2025
2025-11-02 Species distribution update Logunov & Schäfer, 2025 Old value

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