''Macopaeus'' is a
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus com ...
of
jumping spiders
Jumping spiders are a group of spiders that constitute the family Salticidae. As of 2019, this family contained over 600 described genera and over 6,000 described species, making it the largest family of spiders at 13% of all species. Jumping spi ...
endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...
to
Madagascar
Madagascar (; mg, Madagasikara, ), officially the Republic of Madagascar ( mg, Repoblikan'i Madagasikara, links=no, ; french: République de Madagascar), is an island country in the Indian Ocean, approximately off the coast of East Africa ...
. It contains only one species, ''Macopaeus spinosus''.
Two other species (''
M. celebensis''
Merian, 1911 and ''
M. madagascarensis''
Peckham & Peckham
George Williams Peckham (March 23, 1845 – January 10, 1914) and Elizabeth Maria Gifford Peckham (December 19, 1854 – February 11, 1940) were a married couple who were early American teachers, taxonomists, ethologists, arachno ...
, 1903) were described in this genus in the early 20th century. However, these were transferred to the genus ''
Brettus'' in 1980.
[World Spider Catalog]
Footnotes
References
* (2007)
The world spider catalog version 8.0. ''American Museum of Natural History''.
Further reading
* (1980): A revision of the spider genus ''Macopaeus'' (Araneae: Salticidae). ''Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist.'' (Zool.) 38: 219-223.
External links
* Salticidae.org
Salticidae
Monotypic Salticidae genera
Endemic fauna of Madagascar
Spiders of Madagascar
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