Cavasteron

{{Short description|Genus of spiders}}

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{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon=Cavasteron

| authority=Baehr & Jocqué, 2000

| type_species = C. crassicalcar

| type_species_authority = (Baehr & Jocqué, 2000)

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = 12, see text

}}

Cavasteron is a genus of spiders in the family Zodariidae. It was first described in 2000 by Barbara Baehr & Rudy Jocqué.{{cite journal |last1=Baehr |first1=Barbara |last2=Jocqué |first2=Rudy |title=Revisions of genera in the Asteron-complex (Araneae: Zodariidae). The new genera Cavasteron and Minasteron |journal=Records of the Western Australian Museum |date=2000 |volume=20 |pages=1-30 |url=https://museum.wa.gov.au/research/records-supplements/records/revisions-genera-asterom-complex-araneae-zodariidae-new-genera- |access-date=29 November 2024}} {{As of|2024}}, it contains 12 species, all from Australia.{{cite web|title=Zodariidae| website=World Spider Catalog| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| accessdate=2017-03-21| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3823}}