Ballagascar

Ballagascar is a monotypic genus of east African jumping spiders containing the single species, Ballagascar insularis. The genus was first described by G. N. Azarkina and C. R. Haddad in 2020,^[2] and it has only been found in Madagascar.^[1] The type species, Ballagascar insularis, was originally described under the name "Homalattus insularis".^[3]

Ballagascar
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Salticidae
Genus:	Ballagascar Azarkina & Haddad, 2020[1]
Species:	B. insularis
Binomial name
Ballagascar insularis (G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1885)[1]

See also

• Homalattus
• Colaxes
• List of Salticidae genera