Wasaka

Short description: Genus of spiders

Wasaka

Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Subphylum:  | Chelicerata
Class:  | Arachnida
Order:  | Araneae
Infraorder:  | Araneomorphae
Family:  | Corinnidae
Genus:  | Wasaka
Haddad, 2013[1]
Type species
W. occulta

Haddad, 2013

Species

4, see text

Wasaka is a genus of African corinnid sac spiders first described by C. R. Haddad in 2013.[2]

## Species

As of April 2019[update] it contains four species:[1]

* Wasaka imitatrix Haddad, 2013 – Tanzania
* Wasaka montana Haddad, 2013 – Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda
* Wasaka occulta Haddad, 2013 (type) – Tanzania
* Wasaka ventralis Haddad, 2013 – Cameroon

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Gen. Wasaka Haddad, 2013. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/606. Retrieved 2019-05-23.
2. ↑ Haddad, C. R. (2013). "Taxonomic notes on the spider genus Messapus Simon, 1898 (Araneae, Corinnidae), with the description of the new genera Copuetta and Wasaka and the first cladistic analysis of Afrotropical Castianeirinae.". Zootaxa 3688: 1–79. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3688.1.1. PMID 26146688.

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