Tenkana
Genus of spiders
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Tenkana is a genus of the spider family Salticidae (jumping spiders). It was created in 2024 with three species.[1]
| Tenkana | |
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| T. manu | |
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| T. arkavathi | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Salticinae |
| Genus: | Tenkana Marathe, Maddison & Caleb, 2024[1] |
| Type species | |
| Tenkana manu (Caleb, Christudhas, Laltanpuii & Chitra, 2014)[1] | |
| Species | |
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3, see text. | |
Tenkana jayamangalis is reported on dry leaf litter on the ground from Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Karnataka, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, in southern India.[2]
The species Colopsus arkavathi and C. manu are now included under the newly established genus Tenkana as T. arkavathi and T. manu. The genus name Tenkana comes from Kannada, and means south indicating all the known species are from southern India and northern Sri Lanka.[3]