Tanzania | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
Family: | Salticidae |
Subfamily: | Salticinae |
Genus: |
Tanzania Koçak & Kemal, 2008 [1] |
Type species | |
Lilliput mkomaziensis
Wesolowska & Russell-Smith, 2000
[2]
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Species | |
7, see text | |
Synonyms | |
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Tanzania is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by A. Ö. Koçak & M. Kemal in 2008. [3] They are very small spiders, with body lengths ranging from 1.5 to 3 millimetres (0.059 to 0.118 in). Both sexes look alike, but the females are sometimes darker.[ citation needed] It is related to the Euophrys and Talavera.[ citation needed] Three new species discovered in Tanzania by Wesolowska and Russell-Smith in 2000, and given the genus name Lilliput (L. mkomazienis, L. minutus and L. pusillus) [2] are now included in the genus Tanzania.
As of October 2022, it contains seven species, six of which are found in Africa and one in India: [1]