Wasaka is a genus of African corinnid sac spiders first described by C. R. Haddad in 2013.[2]
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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: | Corinnidae |
| Genus: | Wasaka Haddad, 2013[1] |
| Type species | |
| W. occulta Haddad, 2013
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Species
editAs 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
edit- ^ a b "Gen. Wasaka Haddad, 2013". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-23.
- ^ 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.