Capidava (spider)

This article is about the group of jumping spiders. For the ancient city in Romania, see Capidava. For other uses, see Capidava (disambiguation).

Capidava is a genus of South American jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1902.^[2]

Capidava
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Salticidae
Subfamily:	Salticinae
Genus:	Capidava Simon, 1902[1]
Type species
C. auriculata Simon, 1902
Species
6, see text

Species

As of June 2019^[update] it contains six species, found only in Brazil and Guyana:^[1]

• Capidava annulipes Caporiacco, 1947 – Guyana
• Capidava auriculata Simon, 1902 (type) – Brazil
• Capidava biuncata Simon, 1902 – Brazil
• Capidava dubia Caporiacco, 1947 – Guyana
• Capidava saxatilis Soares & Camargo, 1948 – Brazil
• Capidava uniformis Mello-Leitão, 1940 – Guyana