Salticidae  Blackwall, 1841 / Macaroeris  Wunderlich, 1992   5 species

Macaroeris cata (Blackwall, 1867)

Description
Male

Prosoma brown, with yellow spots in the middle and laterally, eye region black-brown. Prosoma length: 1.75-2.2 mm. Sternum yellow-brown, with several darker longitudinal stripes. Legs brownish yellow. Opisthosoma dark brown, dorsally with marking in the middle, laterally brighter, ventrally yellow-brown.

Body length male: 3.5-4.5 mm
Female

Prosoma length: 1.95-2.25 mm.

Body length female: 4.5-6 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Azores, Madeira
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"No references" does not mean that the species does not occur in this country, but that we have not yet inserted the reference for it. We are working on it.

Bulgaria  Removed (Naumova et al., 2021; Logunov & Schäfer, 2025) ||| Germany  Removed (Schmidt, 1971; Logunov & Schäfer, 2025) ||| Romania  Removed (Weiss & Petrișor, 1999; Logunov & Schäfer, 2025) |||
References

Kulczyński W (1899) Arachnoidea opera Rev E Schmitz collecta in insulis Maderianis et in insulis Selvages dictis. Rozprawy i Sprawozdania z Posiedzen Wydzialu Matematyczno Przyrodniczego Akademji Umiejetnosci, Krakow 36: 320-461 pdf

Logunov D V, Schäfer M (2025) A review of the jumping spider genus Macaroeris Wunderlich, 1992 (Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae: Dendryphantini). Arachnology 20: 364-409 pdf

Naumova M, Blagoev G, Deltshev D (2021) Fifty spider species new to the Bulgarian fauna, with a review of some dubious species (Arachnida: Araneae). Zootaxa 4984: 228-257 pdf

Schmidt G (1971) Mit Bananen eingeschleppte Spinnen. Zoologische Beiträge (N.F.) 17: 387-433 pdf

Weiss I, Petrișor A (1999) List of the spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Romania. Travaux du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle “Grigore Antipa” 41: 79-107 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Wunderlich J (1992a) Die Spinnen-Fauna der Makaronesischen Inseln: Taxonomie, Ökologie, Biogeographie und Evolution. Beiträge zur Araneoleologie 1: 1-619 pdf

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