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''Selenops rosario'' is a species of
spider Spiders (order (biology), order Araneae) are air-breathing arthropods that have eight limbs, chelicerae with fangs generally able to inject venom, and spinnerets that extrude spider silk, silk. They are the largest order of arachnids and ran ...
from the family
Selenopidae Selenopidae, also called wall crab spiders, wall spiders and flatties, is a family of nocturnal, free-ranging, araneomorph spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1897. It contains over 281 species in nine genera, of which '' Selenops'' is th ...
. The scientific name of this species was first published in 2005 by G. G. Alayón. Its native habitat is in
Cuba Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is an island country, comprising the island of Cuba (largest island), Isla de la Juventud, and List of islands of Cuba, 4,195 islands, islets and cays surrounding the main island. It is located where the ...
.Platnick, Norman I. (2010)
The world spider catalog
version 10.5. American Museum of Natural History.


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Selenopidae Endemic fauna of Cuba Spiders of the Caribbean Spiders described in 2005 {{Araneomorphae-stub