Cabello

For the surname, see Cabello (surname).

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
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.