Macaroeris is a spider genus of the jumping spider family, Salticidae.

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Macaroeris
Male M. nidicolens from Cologne, Germany
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Salticidae
Subfamily:	Salticinae
Genus:	Macaroeris Wunderlich, 1992
Type species
Aranea nidicolens Walckenaer, 1802
Species
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The genus name is combined from Macaronesia, where most species of the genus occur, and the salticid spider genus Eris.^{[citation needed]}

As of June 2017, the World Spider Catalog lists the following species in the genus:^[1]

• Macaroeris albosignata Schmidt & Krause, 1996 – Canary Islands
• Macaroeris asiatica Logunov & Rakov, 1998 – Central Asia
• Macaroeris cata (Blackwall, 1867) – Madeira, Romania
• Macaroeris desertensis Wunderlich, 1992 – Madeira
• Macaroeris diligens (Blackwall, 1867) – Madeira, Canary Islands
• Macaroeris flavicomis (Simon, 1885) – Greece, Turkey, Ukraine
• Macaroeris litoralis Wunderlich, 1992 – Canary Islands
• Macaroeris moebi (Bösenberg, 1895) – Canary Islands, Savage Islands, Madeira, China
• Macaroeris nidicolens (Walckenaer, 1802) – Europe to Central Asia