''Metabus'' is a
genus
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of
long-jawed orb-weavers that was first described by
Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1899.
Species
it contains four species, found in
Ecuador
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,
Mexico
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, the
Dominican Republic
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,
Guatemala
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, and
French Guiana
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:
*''
Metabus conacyt''
Álvarez-Padilla, 2007 –
Mexico
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,
Guatemala
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*''
Metabus debilis''
(O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889) – Mexico to Ecuador
*''
Metabus ebanoverde''
Álvarez-Padilla, 2007 – Guatemala, Dominican Rep.
*''
Metabus ocellatus''
(Keyserling, 1864) (
type
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) – Mexico to French Guiana
In synonymy:
*''M. gravidus''
O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899 = ''Metabus ocellatus''
(Keyserling, 1864)
See also
*
List of Tetragnathidae species
References
Araneomorphae genera
Taxa named by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge
Tetragnathidae
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