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Salticidae  Blackwall, 1841 / Macaroeris  Wunderlich, 1992   5 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
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Azores, Madeira
Figures
species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Kulczyński 1899)

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male Pedipalp
(Wunderlich 1992a)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Logunov & Schäfer 2025)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Logunov & Schäfer 2025)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Logunov & Schäfer 2025)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Logunov & Schäfer 2025)

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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 Epigyne
(Logunov & Schäfer 2025)

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female Epigyne
(Logunov & Schäfer 2025)

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female Epigyne
(Logunov & Schäfer 2025)

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female Epigyne
(Logunov & Schäfer 2025)

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female Epigyne
(Logunov & Schäfer 2025)

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female Vulva
(Kulczyński 1899)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Wunderlich 1992a)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Logunov & Schäfer 2025)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Logunov & Schäfer 2025)

species

female Vulva, dorsal view
(Logunov & Schäfer 2025)

species

female Vulva, dorsal view
(Logunov & Schäfer 2025)

species

female Vulva, dorsal view
(Logunov & Schäfer 2025)

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female Opisthosoma, dorsal view
(Kulczyński 1899)

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female Opisthosoma, dorsal view
(Kulczyński 1899)

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female Opisthosoma, dorsal view
(Kulczyński 1899)

Distribution List
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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