Capeta (spider)

For the Japanese manga, see Capeta.

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

Capeta
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
Species
See text.

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).

Species

• Capeta cachimbo Ruiz & Brescovit, 2006
• Capeta tridens Ruiz & Brescovit, 2005

Distribution

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

References

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

External links

• 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