Macaroeris

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

Macaroeris
Male M. nidicolens from Cologne, Germany
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Macaroeris
Wunderlich, 1992
Type species
Aranea nidicolens
Species

See text.

Name

The genus name is combined from Macaronesia, where most species of the genus occur, and the salticid spider genus Eris.

Species

As of June 2017, the World Spider Catalog lists the following species in the genus:[1]

References

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


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