Tenkana
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Salticinae |
| Genus: | Tenkana Marathe, Maddison & Caleb, 2024[1] |
| Type species | |
| Tenkana manu (Caleb, Christudhas, Laltanpuii & Chitra, 2014)[1]
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Tenkana is a genus of the spider family Salticidae (jumping spiders). It was created in 2024 with three species. The three species included under the genus Tenkana are Tenkana arkavathi, Tenkana jayamangali and Tenkana manu. Of these three species, Tenkana jayamangalis is a newly described species and this species is reported on dry leaf litter on the ground from Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Karnataka, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, in southern India.[2] The species Colopsus arkavathi and C. manu are now included under the newly established genus Tenkana as T. arkavathi and T. manu. The genus name Tenkana comes from Kannada, and means south indicating all the known species are from southern India and northern Sri Lanka.[3]
Species
[edit]The species included under the genus Tenkana are as follows:[1]
- Tenkana arkavathi (Caleb, 2022), syn. Colopsus arkavathi
- Tenkana jayamangali Caleb & Marathe, 2024
- Tenkana manu (Caleb, Christudhas, Laltanpuii & Chitra, 2014) (type species)
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Gen. Tenkana Marathe, Maddison & Caleb, 2024", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2024-11-15
- ^ Marathe, Kiran; Caleb, John T.D.; Maddison, Wayne P.; Nisha, B.G.; Maliye, Chinmay C.; Lohit, Y.T. & Kunte, Krushnamegh (2024), "Tenkana, a new genus of jumping spiders (Salticidae, Plexippina) from South Asia, with the new Indian species Tenkana jayamangali", ZooKeys (1215): 91–106, doi:10.3897/zookeys.1215.133522, PMC 11489700, PMID 39430049
- ^ "New genus of jumping spiders Tenkana discovered in south India", The Hindu, 22 October 2024, retrieved 23 October 2024