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Capeta (spider)

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Capeta
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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
Species

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Capeta is a genus of spiders in the family Salticidae (jumping spiders).

Name

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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

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Distribution

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C. tridens is only known from the State of Bahia in Brazil, while C. cachimbo was found in the Serra do Cachimbo, Pará.

References

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  • Platnick, Norman I. (2009): The world spider catalog, version 9.5. American Museum of Natural History.
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