Tauala

Tauala is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by F. R. Wanless in 1988.^[2] The name "Tauala" is an arbitrary combination of letters.^[2]

Tauala
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Salticidae
Subfamily:	Salticinae
Genus:	Tauala Wanless, 1988[1]
Type species
T. lepidus Wanless, 1988
Species
13, see text

Species

As of August 2019^[update] it contains thirteen species, found only in Taiwan and Queensland:^[1]

• Tauala alveolatus Wanless, 1988 – Australia (Queensland)
• Tauala athertonensis Gardzinska, 1996 – Australia (Queensland)
• Tauala australiensis Wanless, 1988 – Australia (Queensland)
• Tauala bilobatus Żabka & Patoleta, 2015 – Australia (Queensland)
• Tauala daviesae Wanless, 1988 – Australia (Queensland)
• Tauala elongata Peng & Li, 2002 – Taiwan (=Tauala elongatus as corrected formation of suffix inflection for gender agreement).
• Tauala lepidus Wanless, 1988 (type) – Australia (Queensland)
• Tauala minutus Wanless, 1988 – Australia (Queensland)
• Tauala ottoi Żabka & Patoleta, 2015 – Australia (Queensland)
• Tauala palumaensis Żabka & Patoleta, 2015 – Australia (Queensland)
• Tauala setosus Żabka & Patoleta, 2015 – Australia (Queensland)
• Tauala splendidus Wanless, 1988 – Australia (Queensland)
• Tauala zborowskii Żabka & Patoleta, 2015 – Australia (Queensland)