Tanzania (spider)

This article is about a spider genus. For the country in Africa, see Tanzania.

Tanzania
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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
Lilliput mkomaziensis
Wesolowska & Russell-Smith, 2000[2]
Species

7, see text

Synonyms
  • Lilliput Wesolowska & Russell-Smith, 2000[2]

Tanzania is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by A. Ö. Koçak & M. Kemal in 2008.[3] 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] Three new species discovered in Tanzania by Wesolowska and Russell-Smith in 2000, and given the genus name Lilliput (L. mkomazienis, L. minutus and L. pusillus)[2] are now included in the genus Tanzania.

Species

As of October 2022, it contains seven species, six of which are found in Africa and one in India:[1]

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ a b c Wesolowska, W.; Russell-Smith, A. (2000). "Jumping spiders from Mkomazi Game Reserve in Tanzania (Araneae: Salticidae)". Tropical Zoology. 13: 11–127. Bibcode:2000TrZoo..13...11W. doi:10.1080/03946975.2000.10531126. S2CID 85300462. Archived from the original on 2011-07-22.
  3. ^ 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.