Tusitala

Tusitala is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders). It is also a word in the Samoan language which means 'writer of stories'. Tusitala was the name used by the Samoan people for Robert Louis Stevenson, who lived the last four years of his life in Samoa and is buried on Mount Vaea.^[1]

Species

• Tusitala barbata Peckham & Peckham, 1902 — East, Southern Africa
  • Tusitala barbata longipalpis Lessert, 1925 — Ethiopia, East Africa
• Tusitala discibulba Caporiacco, 1941 — Ethiopia
• Tusitala guineensis Berland & Millot, 1941 — Guinea
• Tusitala hirsuta Peckham & Peckham, 1902 — Zanzibar
• Tusitala lutzi Lessert, 1927 — Republic of Congo
• Tusitala lyrata (Simon, 1903) — West, Central, East Africa
• Tusitala proxima Wesolowska & Russell-Smith, 2000 — Tanzania
• Tusitala unica Wesolowska & Russell-Smith, 2000 — Tanzania
• Tusitala yemenica Wesolowska & van Harten, 1994 — Yemen

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