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Salticidae  Blackwall, 1841 / Macaroeris  Wunderlich, 1992   4 species

Macaroeris cata  (Blackwall, 1867)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034366

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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
Additional information

Non-established species in Europe (Nentwig, 2015: wrong as Aelurillus catus)

Distribution
  Presence
  Not established
  No data
Distribution comment: Presence in Romania is highly doubtful (Fuhn & Gherasim, 1995), therefore removed; Portugal: listed by Cardoso & Morano (2010), but missing in Branco et al. (2019), therefore removed.
Global distribution (WSC 2025): Azores, Madeira, Canary Is.
Figures
species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Kulczyński 1899)

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male Pedipalp
(Wunderlich 1992a)

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male Palpal tibia
(Wunderlich 1992a)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Kulczyński 1899)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Wunderlich 1992a)

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female Vulva
(Kulczyński 1899)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Wunderlich 1992a)

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female Opisthosoma, dorsal view
(Kulczyński 1899)

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female Opisthosoma, dorsal view
(Kulczyński 1899)

species

female Opisthosoma, dorsal view
(Kulczyński 1899)

Distribution List

"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) ||| Germany   (Schmidt, 1971) ||| Romania  Removed (Weiss & Petrișor, 1999) |||
References

Fuhn I E, Gherasim V F (1995) Familia Salticidae. Fauna Romaniei (Arachnida) 5 (5): 1-301 pdf

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

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

Nentwig W (2015) Introduction, establishment rate, pathways and impact of spiders alien to Europe. Biological Invasions 17: 2757-2778 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 (2025) World Spider Catalog. Version 26. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (28.2.2025) 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

Updates
27-10-2023 Distribution insert Detail
13-10-2023 Distribution insert Detail
10-06-2021 Distribution insert Detail
17-06-2020 Distribution update Detail
16-07-2017 Distribution update Detail
30-04-2015 Image insert
08-01-2015 Image insert