Tarkas
Appearance
Tarkas | |
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male Tarkas maculatipes | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
Family: | Salticidae |
Subfamily: | Salticinae |
Genus: | Tarkas Edwards, 2015 |
Species: | T. maculatipes
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Binomial name | |
Tarkas maculatipes (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901)
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Tarkas is a genus of the jumping spider family, Salticidae. The single described species, Tarkas maculatipes, is found in 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
[edit]- ^ "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. PMID 26624463.