Tanzania (spider)

Tanzania
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Salticidae
Subfamily:	Salticinae
Genus:	Tanzania; Koçak & Kemal, 2008
Type species
	Lilliput mkomaziensis; Wesolowska & Russell-Smith, 2000
Species
	6, see text
Synonyms
	Lilliput Wesolowska & Russell-Smith, 2000;

Tanzania is a genus of African 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]}

Species[]

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

Tanzania meridionalis Haddad & Wesolowska, 2011 – South Africa
Tanzania minutus (Wesolowska & Russell-Smith, 2000) – Tanzania, South Africa
Tanzania mkomaziensis (Wesolowska & Russell-Smith, 2000) (type) – Nigeria, Ethiopia, Tanzania, South Africa
Tanzania parvulus Wesolowska, Azarkina & Russell-Smith, 2014 – South Africa
Tanzania pusillus (Wesolowska & Russell-Smith, 2000) – Tanzania
Tanzania striatus Wesolowska, Azarkina & Russell-Smith, 2014 – South Africa

References[]

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

External links[]

Diagnostic drawings of the three species

[NMBE-1] Jump up to: ^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.

[W&RS00-2] Jump up to: ^a ^b Wesolowska, W.; Russell-Smith, A. (2000). "Jumping spiders from Mkomazi Game Reserve in Tanzania (Araneae: Salticidae)". Tropical Zoology. 13: 11–127. doi:10.1080/03946975.2000.10531126. S2CID 85300462. Archived from the original on 2011-07-22.

[Koça2008-3] 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.

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