Tarkas

Tarkas
	male Tarkas maculatipes
Scientific classification
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)

Short description: Genus of spiders

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.

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[WSC_g5521-1] "Gen. Tarkas Edwards, 2015". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/5521.

[Edwards2015-2] 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.

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Tarkas

male Tarkas maculatipes
Scientific classification
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)