Macaroeris

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Classis: Arachnida
Ordo: Araneae
Subordo: Opisthothelae
Infraordo: Araneomorphae
Taxon: Neocribellatae
Series: Entelegynae
Sectio: Dionycha
Superfamilia: Salticoidea

Familia: Salticidae
Subfamilia: Dendryphantinae
Genus: Macaroeris
Species: M. albosignata – M. asiatica – M. cata – M. desertensis – M. diligens – M. flavicomis – M. litoralis – M. moebi – M. nidicolens
Name

Macaroeris Wunderlich, 1992

Type species: Aranea nidicolens Charles Athanase Walckenaer, 1802
References
Primary references

Wunderlich, J. 1992. Die Spinnen-Fauna der Makaronesischen Inseln: Taxonomie, Ökologie, Biogeographie und Evolution. Beiträge zur Araneologie 1: 1–619. [512]

Links

Platnick, N. I. 2009. The World Spider Catalog, version 9.5. American Museum of Natural History. [1]

Macaroeris is a spider genus of the jumping spider family, Salticidae.
Name

The genus name is combined from Macaronesia, where most species of the genus occur, and the salticid spider genus Eris.[citation needed]
Species

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

World Spider Catalog (2017). "Gen. Macaroeris Wunderlich, 1992". World Spider Catalog. 18.0. Bern: Natural History Museum. Retrieved 20 June 2017.

External links

Photograph of M. diligens
Photograph of M. nidicolens