Tenkana, a new genus of jumping spiders (Salticidae, Plexippina) from South Asia, with the new Indian species Tenkanajayamangali

Kiran Marathe; John T D Caleb; Wayne P Maddison; B G Nisha; Chinmay C Maliye; Y T Lohit; Krushnamegh Kunte

doi:10.3897/zookeys.1215.133522

Tenkana, a new genus of jumping spiders (Salticidae, Plexippina) from South Asia, with the new Indian species Tenkanajayamangali

Zookeys. 2024 Oct 11:1215:91-106. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1215.133522. eCollection 2024.

Authors

Kiran Marathe^{1

2}, John T D Caleb³, Wayne P Maddison¹, B G Nisha⁴, Chinmay C Maliye⁵, Y T Lohit⁵, Krushnamegh Kunte⁶

Affiliations

¹ Department of Zoology and Beaty Biodiversity Museum, University of British Columbia, 6270 University Boulevard, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z4, Canada.
² National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, GKVK Campus, Bengaluru, 560065, India.
³ Department of Anatomy, Saveetha Medical College & Hospitals, Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences, Saveetha University, Chennai 602105, Tamil Nadu, India.
⁴ Departments of Zoology and Botany and Beaty Biodiversity Museum, University of British Columbia, 6270 University Boulevard, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z4, Canada.
⁵ Chilipili, 4th Main 5b Right cross Jayanagar West, Tumakuru, 572102, Karnataka, India.
⁶ Wildlife Aware Nature Club, Tumakuru 572101, Karnataka, India.

Abstract

We describe a new plexippine genus, Tenkana gen. nov., supported by phylogenomic data from ultraconserved elements (UCEs), Sanger sequences of four genes, and morphological evidence. The type species, Tenkanamanu (Caleb, Christudhas, Laltanpuii & Chitra, 2014), comb. nov. is transferred from Colopsus, as is Tenkanaarkavathi (Caleb, 2022), comb. nov. The phylogenomic data places Tenkana among the plexippines near Hyllus C.L. Koch, 1846 and Telamonia Thorell, 1887, while the constrained four-gene phylogeny indicates that Tenkana is distinct from Colopsus. Additionally, we describe a new species, Tenkanajayamangali sp. nov.

Keywords: Araneae; biodiversity research; classification; new combination; phylogenomics; systematics; taxonomy; ultraconserved elements.

Kiran Marathe, John T. D. Caleb, Wayne P. Maddison, B. G. Nisha, Chinmay C. Maliye, Y. T. Lohit, Krushnamegh Kunte.

Associated data

Dryad/10.5061/dryad.b8gtht7np