Metacyrba punctata (G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1894)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034613

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Described:


Type Repository Provide information
  • Lectotype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA m - (Edwards, 2006)
  • Paralectotype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA 1f - (Edwards, 2006)
Taxonomic References
Balmaceda punctata Peckham & Peckham, 1894a: 102, pl. 8, f. 8 (Dmf) Original description
Balmaceda punctata F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901a: 297, pl. 29, f. 2-3 (mf)
Fuentes punctatus Banks, 1929: 63
Breda punctata Chickering, 1946: 44
Metacyrba punctata Barnes, 1958: 35, f. 54 (T from Breda)
Metacyrba punctata Edwards, 2006: 199, f. 35-46, 97 (mf)
Metacyrba punctata Bedoya-Róqueme & Nadal, 2019: 80, f. 1a-b, 2a-b (f)
Metacyrba punctata Almaraz-Llamas, Chamé-Vázquez & Jiménez, 2025: 2, f. 4-9 (mf)
References

Almaraz-Llamas, A. Y., Chamé-Vázquez, D. & Jiménez, M.-L. (2025). Primer registro de Hentzia fimbriata (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901) y confirmación de Metacyrba punctata (G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1894) (Araneae: Salticidae) en Jalisco, México. Folia Entomologica Mexicana (n.s.) 11(e20251106): 1-4. doi: 10.53749/fem.2025.11.06 -- Show included taxa

Banks, N. (1929). Spiders from Panama. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 69: 53-96. -- Show included taxa

Barnes, R. D. (1958). North American jumping spiders of the subfamily Marpissinae (Araneae, Salticidae). American Museum Novitates 1867: 1-50. -- Show included taxa

Bedoya-Róqueme, E. & Nadal, M. F. (2019). First records of genus Metacyrba F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901 (Araneae: Salticidae: Dendryphantini) from Colombia. Species 20: 76-83. -- Show included taxa

Chickering, A. M. (1946). The Salticidae of Panama. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 97: 1-474. -- 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

Peckham, G. W. & Peckham, E. G. (1894a). Spiders of the Marptusa group. Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin 2(2): 83-156. -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, F. O. (1901a). Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London, 2, pp. 193-312, pl. 15-30. [[for the exact dates see Lyal, 2011]] -- 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
2025-08-08 New taxonomic reference entry Almaraz-Llamas, Chamé-Vázquez & Jiménez, 2025
2019-01-25 New taxonomic reference entry Bedoya-Róqueme & Nadal, 2019

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