Wandawe is a genus of sub-Saharan African jumping spiders first described by G. N. Azarkina and C. R. Haddad in 2020,[2] including one species moved from Colaxes and two newly described species.[3] The name pays tribute to Polish zoologist Wanda Wesołowska, a major contributor jumping spider research.[2] As of April 2022[update] it contains only three species: W. australis, W. benjamini, and W. tigrina.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Genus: | Wandawe Azarkina & Haddad, 2020[1] |
| Type species | |
| Colaxes benjamini (Wesołowska & Haddad, 2013)
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See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b "Gen. Wandawe Azarkina & Haddad, 2020". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2022. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2022-04-01.
- ^ a b Azarkina, G. N.; Haddad, C. R. (2020). "Partial revision of the Afrotropical Ballini, with the description of seven new genera (Araneae: Salticidae)". Zootaxa. 4899 (1): 15–92. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4899.1.4. PMID 33756826. S2CID 232337871.
- ^ Wesołowska, W.; Haddad, C. R. (2013). "New data on the jumping spiders of South Africa (Araneae: Salticidae)". African Invertebrates. 54: 177–240. doi:10.5733/afin.054.0111. S2CID 59450669.
Further reading
edit- Prószyński, J. (2017). "Pragmatic classification of the world's Salticidae (Araneae)". Ecologica Montenegrina. 12: 1–133. doi:10.37828/em.2017.12.1.
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