Caribena laeta

Caribena laeta is a species of spider in the family Theraphosidae, found in the US Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, and Cuba,[1] the last dubiously according to Caroline Fukushima and Rogério Bertani in 2017.[2]

Caribena laeta
Female
Male
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Theraphosidae
Genus: Caribena
Species:
C. laeta
Binomial name
Caribena laeta
(C.L. Koch, 1842)[1]
Synonyms[1]
  • Mygale laeta C.L. Koch, 1842
  • Mygale caesia C.L. Koch, 1842
  • Typhochlaena caesia (C.L. Koch, 1842)
  • Avicularia caesia (C.L. Koch, 1842)
  • Avicularia laeta (C.L. Koch, 1842)

References
  1. "Taxon details Caribena laeta (C.L. Koch, 1842)", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2017-03-15
  2. Fukushima, C.S. & Bertani, R. (2017), "Taxonomic revision and cladistic analysis of Avicularia Lamarck, 1818 (Araneae, Theraphosidae, Aviculariinae) with description of three new aviculariine genera", ZooKeys, 659: 1–185, Suppl. 1–5, doi:10.3897/zookeys.659.10717, PMC 5345366, PMID 28331414


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