Tarkas
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Tarkas | |
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male Tarkas maculatipes | |
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Genus: | Tarkas Edwards, 2015
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Species: | T. maculatipes
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Tarkas maculatipes (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901)
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Diversity | |
1 species |
Tarkas is a genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders). The single described species, Tarkas maculatipes, is endemic to Mexico and Guatemala.[1]
The genus is named after the character Tars Tarkas from the Edgar Rice Burroughs novel A Princess of Mars.[2]
References
- ^ "Gen. Tarkas Edwards, 2015". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2017-02-20.
- ^ Edwards, G. B. (2015-11-02). "Freyinae, a major new subfamily of Neotropical jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae)". Zootaxa. 4036 (1): 63. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4036.1.1. ISSN 1175-5334.