Biology:Tarkas
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Short description: Genus of spiders
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| male Tarkas maculatipes | |
Scientific classification 
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| 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
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| Binomial name | |
| Tarkas maculatipes (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901)
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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
- ↑ "Gen. Tarkas Edwards, 2015". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/5521.
- ↑ Edwards, G. B. (2015-11-02). "Freyinae, a major new subfamily of Neotropical jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae)" (in en). Zootaxa 4036 (1): 63. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4036.1.1. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 26624463. http://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4036.1.1.
Wikidata ☰ Q27464547 entry
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