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 it contains only three species: W. australis, W. benjamini, and W. tigrina.[1]

Wandawe
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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)
Species
  • Wandawe australis Azarkina & Haddad, 2020
  • Wandawe benjamini (Wesołowska & Haddad, 2013)
  • Wandawe tigrina Azarkina & Haddad, 2020

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References

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  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ 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.

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