Araneotanna

Araneotanna is a spider genus of the jumping spider family, Salticidae with only one species, A. ornatipes, that occurs only on the New Hebrides.

Araneotanna
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Araneotanna
Özdikmen & Kury, 2006
Species:
A. ornatipes
Binomial name
Araneotanna ornatipes
(Berland, 1938)
Synonyms
  • Tanna ornatipes Berland, 1938

Name

The genus was named Tanna until 2006, when it had to be replaced due to a conflict with a genus of the same name in the Hemipteran family Cicadidae, Tanna Distant, 1905.

Tanna is an island of Vanuatu. The salticid genus Efate is also named after an island of Vanuatu.

References

  • Özdikmen, H. & Kury, A.B. (2006): Three homonymous generic names in Araneae and Opiliones. The Journal of Arachnology 34: 279-280. PDF


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