Capeta (genus)

Taxobox
name = "Capeta"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Arachnida
ordo = Araneae
familia = Salticidae
subfamilia = Sitticinae
genus = "Capeta"
genus_authority = Ruiz & Brescovit, 2005
diversity_link = List of Salticidae species#Capeta
diversity = 1 species
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species = "C. tridens"
binomial = "Capeta tridens"
binomial_authority = Ruiz & Brescovit, 2005

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

Name

"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).

Distribution

The only described species "C. tridens" is only known from the State of Bahia in Brazil.

References

* (2007): [http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/index.html The world spider catalog] , version 8.0. "American Museum of Natural History".

External links

* [http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0101-81752005000300026&lng=en&nrm=&tlng=en Three new genera of jumping spider from Brazil (Araneae, Salticidae) (2005)]