Tarkas

Short description: Genus of spiders

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)

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

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