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Cabello

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Cabello
female C. eugeni
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Theridiidae
Genus: Cabello
Levi, 1964[1]
Species:
C. eugeni
Binomial name
Cabello eugeni
Levi, 1964[1]

The spider genus Cabello consists of only one species, Cabello eugeni, found in Venezuela.[1] It is a small yellow-white spider, with females 2 mm long, and males 1.6 mm. The eye region is reddish with a dusky median longitudinal band, the sternum whitish, with grey sides. The yellow-white legs have scattered black spots on the anterior face. On the abdomen there are scattered white spots.

Name

The genus is named after the city Puerto Cabello in Venezuela. The species is named after Eugène Simon, who collected the first specimen in 1888, on a coffee plantation on the north slope of Mt. Silla.

References

  1. ^ a b c "Gen. Cabello Levi, 1964", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2016-02-25
  • Levi, Herbert W. (1964). The Spider Genera Stemmops, Chrosiothes, and the New Genus Cabello from America. Psyche 71: 73-92. PDF.