Tarkas
Tarkas is a genus of the jumping spider family, Salticidae. The single described species, Tarkas maculatipes, is endemic to Mexico and Guatemala.[1]
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| Genus: | Tarkas Edwards, 2015 |
| Species: | T. maculatipes |
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| Tarkas maculatipes (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901) | |
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The genus is named after the character Tars Tarkas from the Edgar Rice Burroughs novel A Princess of Mars.[2]
References
- "Gen. Tarkas Edwards, 2015". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2017-02-20.
- Edwards, G. B. (2015-11-02). "Freyinae, a major new subfamily of Neotropical jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae)". Zootaxa. 4036 (1): 63. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4036.1.1. ISSN 1175-5334.
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