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

Metacyrba venusta (Chickering, 1946)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035201

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Described:

Distribution: Mexico to Venezuela

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA m - (Edwards, 2006)
Holotype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA f of Parkella fusca - (Edwards, 2006)
Holotype: Museo de Biología, Universidad Central de Venezuela (MBUC/MUCV), Caracas, Venezuela f (not examined) of Dendryphantes franganilloi - (Edwards, 2006)

Taxonomic References

Parkella venusta Chickering, 1946: 49, f. 27-30 (Dm) Original description

Parkella fusca Chickering, 1946: 51, f. 31-32 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035200]

Dendryphantes franganilloi Caporiacco, 1955: 441, f. 79 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033090]

Metacyrba franganilloi Ruiz & Brescovit, 2005b: 754, f. 5-6 (f, T from Dendryphantes)

Metacyrba venusta Edwards, 2006: 207, f. 79-96, 102 (mf, T from Parkella, S of Metacyrba franganilloi and Parkella fusca)

Metacyrba venusta Bedoya-Róqueme & Nadal, 2019: 81, f. 1c-d, 2c-d (f)

References

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

Caporiacco, L. di (1955). Estudios sobre los aracnidos de Venezuela. 2a parte: Araneae. Acta Biologica Venezuelica 1: 265-448. -- 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

Ruiz, G. R. S. & Brescovit, A. D. (2005b). Notes on the Venezuelan jumping spiders described by Caporiacco (Araneae, Salticidae). Revista Brasileira de Zoologia 22: 753-760. -- 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
2019-01-25	New taxonomic reference entry	Bedoya-Róqueme & Nadal, 2019