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Genus: Metacyrba F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Metacyrba insularis (Banks, 1902)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034610

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Described:

Distribution: Galapagos

External Resources*: Jumping Spiders of the World Metzner (2026) | Salticidae Database Prószyński (2025) | GBIF

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), New York, USA f - (Edwards, 2006)

Taxonomic References

Cyrba insularis Banks, 1902c: 66 (Df) Original description

Metacyrba insularis Banks, 1930b: 278, pl. 1, f. 1-2 (Dm)

Metacyrba insularis Edwards, 2006: 198, f. 13-24, 100 (mf)

Metacyrba insularis Baert et al., 2023: 25, f. 85A-C (mf)

References

Baert, L., Maelfait, J.-P., Desender, K., Hendrickx, F., Dekoninck, W., Berthet, M., Bouckaert, K., Caudron, J. & Leclercq, M. (2023). Updated checklist, origin, distribution, literature and genital drawings of the spiders of the Galápagos Islands. Belgian Journal of Entomology 142: 1-188. [[includes figs of 5 undescribed species]] -- Show included taxa

Banks, N. (1902c). Papers from the Hopkins Stanford Galapagos Expedition; 1898-1899. VII. Entomological Results (6). Arachnida. With field notes by Robert E. Snodgrass. Proceedings of the Washington Academy of Sciences 4: 49-86. -- Show included taxa

Banks, N. (1930b). Arachnida. In: The Norwegian Zoological Expedition to the Galapagos Islands 1925 conducted by Alf Wollebaek. Nyt Magazin for Naturvidenskaberne 68: 271-278, pl. 1-2. -- Show included taxa

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: 193-226. -- 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.

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
2024-12-22	New taxonomic reference entry	Baert et al., 2023