''Capobula'' is a

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of southern African spiders in the family

Trachelidae Trachelidae is a family of araneomorph spiders (more recently evolved spiders with inward-pointing chelicerae) first described by Eugène Simon in 1897 as a subfamily called "Tracheleae" ("Trachelinae" in modern terminology). The Trachelidae fam ...

. The type species was first described by

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from a juvenile found in

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. It was placed with ''

Orthobula ''Orthobula'' is a genus of araneomorph spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1897 as a member of Liocranidae. It was transferred to Corinnidae in 2002, to Phrurolithidae in 2014, and to Trachelidae in 2017. Species it contains twenty sp ...

'' for several morphological similarities, including a large

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beneath the

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and spines behind several of the legs. After a more thorough examination in 2021, including both male and female adults, enough distinctive features were found in the holotype and several other newly discovered species to warrant a new genus.

Species

it contains five species: *'' C. capensis'' Haddad, Jin, Platnick & Booysen, 2021 – South Africa *'' C. infima'' (Simon, 1896) (

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) – South Africa *'' C. montana'' Haddad, Jin, Platnick & Booysen, 2021 – South Africa, Lesotho *'' C. neethlingi'' Haddad, Jin, Platnick & Booysen, 2021 – South Africa *'' C. ukhahlamba'' Haddad, Jin, Platnick & Booysen, 2021 – South Africa

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q106201472 Trachelidae genera Taxa named by Norman I. Platnick Spiders of Africa

Species

See also

References