Tarkas

Tarkas
male Tarkas maculatipes
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Family: Salticidae
Genus: Tarkas
Edwards, 2015
Species: T. maculatipes
Binomial name
Tarkas maculatipes
(F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901)
Diversity
1 species

Tarkas is a genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders). The single described species, Tarkas maculatipes, is endemic to 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

  1. "Gen. Tarkas Edwards, 2015". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2017-02-20.
  2. Edwards, G. B. (2015-11-02). "Freyinae, a major new subfamily of Neotropical jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae)". Zootaxa. 4036 (1): 63. ISSN 1175-5334. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4036.1.1.
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