Cabello

For the surname, see Cabello (surname).
Cabello
female C. eugeni
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Suborder: Araneomorphae
Family: Theridiidae
Genus: Cabello
Levi, 1964
Species: C. eugeni
Binomial name
Cabello eugeni
Levi, 1964
Diversity
1 species

The spider genus Cabello consists of only one species, Cabello eugeni. 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.

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