Capeta (spider)
Appearance
Capeta | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
Family: | Salticidae |
Subfamily: | Salticinae |
Tribe: | Sitticini |
Genus: | Capeta Ruiz & Brescovit, 2005 |
Type species | |
Capeta tridens Ruiz & Brescovit, 2005
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Species | |
Capeta is a genus of spiders in the family Salticidae (jumping spiders).
Name
[edit]Capeta is a Brazilian word for devil. tridens ("trident") refers to the three projections in the male palp seen in ventral view (the embolus, its basal projection and the retrolateral tibial apophysis).
Species
[edit]- Capeta cachimbo Ruiz & Brescovit, 2006
- Capeta tridens Ruiz & Brescovit, 2005
Distribution
[edit]C. tridens is only known from the State of Bahia in Brazil, while C. cachimbo was found in the Serra do Cachimbo, Pará.
References
[edit]- Platnick, Norman I. (2009): The world spider catalog, version 9.5. American Museum of Natural History.
External links
[edit]- Three new genera of jumping spider from Brazil (Araneae, Salticidae) (2005)
- Ruiz, Gustavo R.S. & Brescovit, Antonio D. (2006): Gavarilla, a new genus of jumping spider from Brazil, and description of two new species of the genera Capeta Ruiz & Brescovit and Amatorculus Ruiz & Brescovit (Araneae, Salticidae, Sitticinae). PDF