Tanzania (spider)
| Tanzania | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Salticinae |
| Genus: | Tanzania Koçak & Kemal, 2008[1] |
| Type species | |
| T. mkomaziensis (Wesolowska & Russell-Smith, 2000)
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| Species | |
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6, see text | |
Tanzania is a genus of African jumping spiders that was first described by A. Ö. Koçak & M. Kemal in 2008.[2] They are very small spiders, with body lengths ranging from 1.5 to 3 millimetres (0.059 to 0.118 in). Both sexes look alike, but the females are sometimes darker.[citation needed] It is related to the Euophrys and Talavera.[citation needed]
Species
As of August 2019[update] it contains six species, found only in Africa:[1]
- Tanzania meridionalis Haddad & Wesolowska, 2011 – South Africa
- Tanzania minutus (Wesolowska & Russell-Smith, 2000) – Tanzania, South Africa
- Tanzania mkomaziensis (Wesolowska & Russell-Smith, 2000) (type) – Nigeria, Ethiopia, Tanzania, South Africa
- Tanzania parvulus Wesolowska, Azarkina & Russell-Smith, 2014 – South Africa
- Tanzania pusillus (Wesolowska & Russell-Smith, 2000) – Tanzania
- Tanzania striatus Wesolowska, Azarkina & Russell-Smith, 2014 – South Africa
References
- ^ a b "Gen. Tanzania Koçak & Kemal, 2008". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-09-26.
- ^ Koçak, A. Ö.; Kemal, M. (2008). "New synonyms and replacement names in the genus group taxa of Araneida". Centre for Entomological Studies Ankara, Miscellaneous Papers. 139–140: 1–4.
External links
Further reading
- Wesolowska, W.; Russell-Smith, A. (2000). "Jumping spiders from Mkomazi Game Reserve in Tanzania (Araneae: Salticidae)". Tropical Zoology. 13: 11–127. Archived from the original on 2011-07-22.