Capidava (spider)

{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}

{{About|the group of jumping spiders|the ancient city in Romania|Capidava|other uses|Capidava (disambiguation)}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Capidava

| authority = Simon, 1902

| type_species = C. auriculata

| type_species_authority = Simon, 1902

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = 6, see text

}}

Capidava is a genus of South American jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1902.{{cite journal| last=Simon| first=E.| year=1902| title=Etudes arachnologiques. 31e Mémoire. LI. Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles de la famille des Salticidae (suite)| journal=Annales de la Société Entomologique de France| pages=389–421| volume=71| author-link=Eugène Simon}}

Species

{{as of|2019|06}} it contains six species, found only in Brazil and Guyana:{{cite journal| title=Gen. Capidava Simon, 1902| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| accessdate=2019-07-05| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2557| doi=10.24436/2| last1=Gloor| first1=Daniel| last2=Nentwig| first2=Wolfgang| last3=Blick| first3=Theo| last4=Kropf| first4=Christian}}

References