Taraxella

Taraxella
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Salticidae
Subfamily:	Spartaeinae
Genus:	Taraxella Wanless, 1984[1]
Type species
T. solitaria Wanless, 1984
Species
5, see text

Taraxella is a genus of Southeast Asian jumping spiders that was first described by F. R. Wanless in 1984.^[2]

Species

As of August 2019^[update] it contains five species, found only in Indonesia and Malaysia:^[1]

• Taraxella hillyardi Wanless, 1987 – Malaysia
• Taraxella petrensis Wanless, 1987 – Indonesia (Sumatra)
• Taraxella reinholdae Wanless, 1987 – Borneo
• Taraxella solitaria Wanless, 1984 (type) – Borneo
• Taraxella sumatrana Wanless, 1987 – Indonesia (Sumatra)

References

1. "Gen. Taraxella Wanless, 1984". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-09-26.
2. Wanless, F. R. (1984). "A review of the spider subfamily Spartaeinae nom. n. (Araneae: Salticidae) with descriptions of six new genera". Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History. 46: 135–205. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.15964.