Cabello
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.
| Cabello | |
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| female C. eugeni | |
Scientific classification  | |
| 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] | |
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.
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References
- "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.
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