Tanzania (spider)

This article is about a spider genus. For the country in Africa, see Tanzania.

Tanzania is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by A. Ö. Koçak & M. Kemal in 2008.^[3] They are very small spiders, with body lengths ranging from 1.5 to 3 millimetres (0.059 to 0.118 in). Both sexes look alike, but the females are sometimes darker.^{[citation needed]} It is related to the Euophrys and Talavera.^{[citation needed]} Three new species discovered in Tanzania by Wesolowska and Russell-Smith in 2000, and given the genus name Lilliput (L. mkomazienis, L. minutus and L. pusillus)^[2] are now included in the genus Tanzania.

Tanzania
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Salticidae
Subfamily:	Salticinae
Genus:	Tanzania Koçak & Kemal, 2008[1]
Type species
Lilliput mkomaziensis Wesolowska & Russell-Smith, 2000[2]
Species
7, see text
Synonyms
Lilliput Wesolowska & Russell-Smith, 2000[2]

Species

As of October 2022, it contains seven species, six of which are found in Africa and one in India:^[1]

• Tanzania meridionalis Haddad & Wesolowska, 2011 – South Africa
• Tanzania minutus (Wesolowska & Russell-Smith, 2000) – Tanzania, South Africa
• Tanzania mkomaziensis (Wesolowska & Russell-Smith, 2000) (type) – Nigeria, Ethiopia, Tanzania, South Africa
• Tanzania parvulus Wesolowska, Azarkina & Russell-Smith, 2014 – South Africa
• Tanzania pusillus (Wesolowska & Russell-Smith, 2000) – Tanzania
• Tanzania striatus Wesolowska, Azarkina & Russell-Smith, 2014 – South Africa
• Tanzania yellapragadai Prajapati & Dudhatra, 2022 - India