Tenkana
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| Genus: | Tenkana Marathe, Maddison & Caleb, 2024
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| Tenkana manu (Caleb, Christudhas, Laltanpuii & Chitra, 2014)
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Tenkana is a genus of the spider family Salticidae (jumping spiders). It is a newly created genus 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 the dry leaf litter on the ground from Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Karnataka, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, in southern India.[1] Other 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 which means south indicating all the known species are from southern India and northern Sri Lanka.[2]
Species
[edit]The species included under the genus Tenkana are as follows:
- Tenkana arkavathi (Caleb, 2022)
- Tenkana jayamangali Caleb & Marathe, 2024
- Tenkana manu (Caleb, Christudhas, Laltanpuii & Chitra, 2014)
References
[edit]- ^ Kiran Marathe, John T. D. Caleb, Wayne P. Maddison, B. G. Nisha, Chinmay C. Maliye, Y. T. Lohit, Krushnamegh Kunte, Tenkana, a new genus of jumping spiders (Salticidae, Plexippina) from South Asia, with the new Indian species Tenkana jayamangali, Zookeys, Volume 1215, 2024, Pages 91-106, ISSN 1313-2989, https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1215.133522.
- ^ "New genus of jumping spiders 'Tenkana' discovered in south India". Retrieved 23 October 2024.