Caddo Banks, 1892

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Genus Caddo Banks, 1892

NOTES. All known species of Caddo are small (up to 3 mm) and inconspicuous, with thin, long legs. Very large eyes and eye tubercle, which occupy most of the carapace, are immediately apparent ( Figs 1, 2, 4 ).

SPECIES INCLUDED. The genus Caddo consist of two extant species, C. agilis Banks,

1892 and C. pepperella Shear, 1975, and one fossil species C. dentipalpus (Koch et Berendt,

1854) (Baltic and Bitterfeld amber, Oligocene). Both extant species distributed in U.S.A., Canada and Japan, in addition to that C. agilis known from Kuril Islands and C. pepperella –

from South Korea (Suzuki 1958; Shear, 1975, 1996; Giribet & Kury, 2007; Groh & Giribet,

2015).

Figures

Figs 1–7. Caddo agilis female. 1 – alive specimen, 2 – body, dorsal view, 3 – same,