Tanzania (spider)

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. It is related to the Euophrys and Talavera.

Tanzania
Scientific classification
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)
Species

6, see text

Species

As of August 2019 it contains six species, found only in Africa:[1]

References

  1. "Gen. Tanzania Koçak & Kemal, 2008". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-09-26.
  2. 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.

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