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Tarne

Tarne is a monotypic genus of West African jumping spiders containing the single species, Tarne dives. It was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1886, and is found only in Africa.

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Tarne
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Genus: Tarne
Simon, 18861
Species:
T. dives
Binomial name
Tarne dives
Simon, 1886

Tarne is a monotypic genus of West African jumping spiders containing the single species, Tarne dives. It was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1886,2 and is found only in Africa.1

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References

  1. "Gen. Tarne Simon, 1886". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-09-26.
  2. Simon, E. (1886). "Etudes arachnologiques. 18e Mémoire. XXVI. Matériaux pour servir à la faune des Arachnides du Sénégal. (Suivi d'une appendice intitulé: Descriptions de plusieurs espèces africaines nouvelles)". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 5 (6): 345–396.