- Source: 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 are now included under the newly established genus Tenkana as T. arkavathi and T. manu. The genus name Tenkana comes from Kannada, and means south indicating all the known species are from southern India and northern Sri Lanka.
Species
The species included under the genus Tenkana are as follows:
Tenkana arkavathi (Caleb, 2022), syn. Colopsus arkavathi
Tenkana jayamangali Caleb & Marathe, 2024
Tenkana manu (Caleb, Christudhas, Laltanpuii & Chitra, 2014) (type species)