Macaroeris
| Macaroeris | |
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| Male M. nidicolens from Cologne, Germany | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Salticinae |
| Genus: | Macaroeris Wunderlich, 1992 |
| Type species | |
| Aranea nidicolens Walckenaer, 1802
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| Species | |
Macaroeris is a spider genus of the jumping spider family, Salticidae.
Name[edit]
The genus name is combined from Macaronesia, where most species of the genus occur, and the salticid spider genus Eris.[citation needed]
Species[edit]
As of June 2017, the World Spider Catalog lists the following species in the genus:[1]
- Macaroeris albosignata Schmidt & Krause, 1996 – Canary Islands
- Macaroeris asiatica Logunov & Rakov, 1998 – Central Asia
- Macaroeris cata (Blackwall, 1867) – Madeira, Romania
- Macaroeris desertensis Wunderlich, 1992 – Madeira
- Macaroeris diligens (Blackwall, 1867) – Madeira, Canary Islands
- Macaroeris flavicomis (Simon, 1885) – Greece, Turkey, Ukraine
- Macaroeris litoralis Wunderlich, 1992 – Canary Islands
- Macaroeris moebi (Bösenberg, 1895) – Canary Islands, Savage Islands, Madeira, China
- Macaroeris nidicolens (Walckenaer, 1802) – Europe to Central Asia
References[edit]
- ^ World Spider Catalog (2017). "Gen. Macaroeris Wunderlich, 1992". World Spider Catalog. 18.0. Bern: Natural History Museum. Retrieved 20 June 2017.
External links[edit]
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