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Tenkana
Tenkana is a genus of the spider family Salticidae (jumping spiders). It was created in 2024 with three species. The three species included under the genus Tenkana are Tenkana arkavathi, Tenkana jayamangali and Tenkana manu. Of these three species, Tenkana jayamangalis is a newly described species and this species is reported on dry leaf litter on the ground from Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Karnataka, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, in southern India. The species Colopsus arkavathi and C. manu...
3 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Tenkana manu
speciesTenkana manu

Tenkana jayamangali
speciesTenkana jayamangali

Tenkana arkavathi
speciesTenkana arkavathi
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1580907.