Biology:Tarkas

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Tarkas
Male Tarkas maculatipes 02.jpg
male Tarkas maculatipes
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Tarkas
Edwards, 2015
Species:
T. maculatipes
Binomial name
Tarkas maculatipes
(F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901)

Tarkas is a genus of the jumping spider family, Salticidae. The single described species, Tarkas maculatipes, is found in 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

Wikidata ☰ Q27464547 entry