World Spider Catalog

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

Metaphidippus chera (Chamberlin, 1924)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034623

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Described:

Distribution: USA, Mexico

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

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Taxonomic References

Dendryphantes chera Chamberlin, 1924b: 683 (Df) Original description

Metaphidippus chera Breene et al., 1993: 23, 72, f. 60A-B (Dm, f, T from Dendryphantes)

Metaphidippus chera Maddison, 1996: 315, f. 33, 186-187, 233, 257, 514-528 (Tf from Dendryphantes, Dm)

References

Breene, R. G., Dean, D. A., Nyffeler, M. & Edwards, G. B. (1993). Biology, Predation Ecology, and Significance of Spiders in Texas Cotton Ecosystems with a Key to Species. Texas Agriculture Experiment Station College Station, 115 pp. -- Show included taxa

Chamberlin, R. V. (1924b). The spider fauna of the shores and islands of the Gulf of California. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 12: 561-694. -- Show included taxa

Maddison, W. P. (1996). Pelegrina Franganillo and other jumping spiders formerly placed in the genus Metaphidippus (Araneae: Salticidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 154: 215-368. -- 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]

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