Taraxella

Taraxella is a genus of Southeast Asian jumping spiders that was first described by F. R. Wanless in 1984.[2]

Taraxella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Genus: Taraxella
Wanless, 1984[1]
Type species
T. solitaria
Wanless, 1984
Species

5, see text

Species

As of August 2019 it contains five species, found only in Indonesia and Malaysia:[1]

  • Taraxella hillyardi Wanless, 1987 – Malaysia
  • Taraxella petrensis Wanless, 1987 – Indonesia (Sumatra)
  • Taraxella reinholdae Wanless, 1987 – Borneo
  • Taraxella solitaria Wanless, 1984 (type) – Borneo
  • Taraxella sumatrana Wanless, 1987 – Indonesia (Sumatra)

References
  1. "Gen. Taraxella Wanless, 1984". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-09-26.
  2. Wanless, F. R. (1984). "A review of the spider subfamily Spartaeinae nom. n. (Araneae: Salticidae) with descriptions of six new genera". Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History. 46: 135–205.


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