Tenkana, a new genus of jumping spiders (Salticidae, Plexippina) from South Asia, with the new Indian species Tenkana jayamangali

By

Marathe, Kiran
Caleb, John T. D.
Maddison, Wayne P.
B.G., Nisha
Maliye, Chinmay
Yt, Lohit
Kunte, Krushnamegh J

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2024

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

1215

Pages

91--106

Subjects

Araneae , biodiversity research , Classification , new combination , phylogenomics , systematics , taxonomy , ultraconserved elements

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1215.133522

 

Abstract

We describe a new plexippine genus, Tenkanagen. nov., supported by phylogenomic data from ultraconserved elements (UCEs), Sanger sequences of four genes, and morphological evidence. The type species, Tenkana manu (Caleb, Christudhas, Laltanpuii & Chitra, 2014), comb. nov. is transferred from Colopsus, as is Tenkana arkavathi (Caleb, 2022), comb. nov. The phylogenomic data places Tenkana among the plexippines near Hyllus C.L. Koch, 1846 and Telamonia Thorell, 1887, while the constrained four-gene phylogeny indicates that Tenkana is distinct from Colopsus. Additionally, we describe a new species, Tenkana jayamangalisp. nov.