World Spider Catalog

Genus: Macaroeris Wunderlich, 1992 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Macaroeris granti (Warburton, 1892)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:058178

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Described:

Distribution: Madeira, Canary Is.

Type Repository Provide information

Syntype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK 2f - (Logunov & Schäfer, 2025)
Holotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany m (14379) of Dendryphantes musae - (Logunov & Schäfer, 2025)
Paratype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany 3f (14376) of Dendryphantes musae - (Logunov & Schäfer, 2025)
Holotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany m (37607) of Macaroeris desertensis - (Logunov & Schäfer, 2025)
Paratype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany 1m (37606) of Macaroeris desertensis - (Logunov & Schäfer, 2025)

Taxonomic References

Marpissa grantii Warburton, 1892: 217, pl. 14, f. 2-3 (Df) Original description

Dendryphantes musae Schmidt, 1956e: 152, f. 9-10 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:058181]

Dendryphantes granti Denis, 1962a: 52, f. 47 (f)

Macaroeris desertensis Wunderlich, 1992a: 516, f. 834-837 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034367]

Macaroeris granti Logunov & Schäfer, 2025: 385, f. 191-247 (mf, removed from S of Macaroeris nidicolens [rejecting Wunderlich, 1992a: 519], S of M. desertensis and M. musae [removed from S of M. nidicolens, rejecting Wunderlich, 1992a: 519])

References

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

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

Schmidt, G. (1956e). Zur Fauna der durch canarische Bananen eingeschleppten Spinnen mit Beschreibungen neuer Arten. Zoologischer Anzeiger 157: 140-153. -- Show included taxa

Warburton, C. (1892). Spiders from Madeira. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (6) 10(57): 216-228, pl. 14. doi: 10.1080/00222939208677398 -- 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

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2025-11-02	Taxonomic reference added from other taxon		Old value
2025-11-02	Taxonomic reference added from other taxon		Old value
2025-11-02	Taxonomic reference added from other taxon		Old value
2025-11-02	Species synonymy	Logunov & Schäfer, 2025		Macaroeris desertensis synonymized with Macaroeris granti
2025-11-02	Species synonymy	Logunov & Schäfer, 2025		Macaroeris musae synonymized with Macaroeris granti
2025-11-02	New taxonomic reference entry	Logunov & Schäfer, 2025
2025-11-02	Species updated	Logunov & Schäfer, 2025	Old value	Removed synonymy