Cyrba algerina

Cyrba algerina, the Algerian jumping spider, is a species of jumping spider in the subfamily Spartaeinae.^[1][2] Females grow to 4.2 to 6 millimeters, males 3.5 to 4 millimeters in size. It is the only species of Cyrba found in Europe.^[3]

Cyrba algerina
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Salticidae
Genus:	Cyrba
Species:	C. algerina
Binomial name
Cyrba algerina Lucas, 1846

Ecology

Cyrba algerina is araneophagic and feeds on web-building spiders, but given a lengthy enough fasting period it will practice entomophagy.^[4] It has also displayed web-invading kleptoparasitism and oophagy.^[5]