Metabus (spider)

This article is about a genus of spiders. For other uses, see Metabus (disambiguation).

Metabus is a genus of long-jawed orb-weavers that was first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1899.^[3]

Metabus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Tetragnathidae
Genus:	Metabus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899[1]
Type species
M. ocellatus (Keyserling, 1864)
Species
4, see text
Synonyms[1]
Metargyra F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1903[2]

Species

As of October 2019^[update] it contains four species, found in Ecuador, Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, and French Guiana:^[1]

• Metabus conacyt Álvarez-Padilla, 2007 – Mexico, Guatemala
• Metabus debilis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889) – Mexico to Ecuador
• Metabus ebanoverde Álvarez-Padilla, 2007 – Guatemala, Dominican Rep.
• Metabus ocellatus (Keyserling, 1864) (type) – Mexico to French Guiana

In synonymy:

• M. gravidus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899 = Metabus ocellatus (Keyserling, 1864)

See also

• List of Tetragnathidae species