Capeta (spider)

Capeta
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Sitticinae
Genus: Capeta
Ruiz & Brescovit, 2005
Type species
Capeta tridens
Ruiz & Brescovit, 2005
Species

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Diversity
2 species

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

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

Species

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