14 Nov 2024        11:18:37 am

Environmental Ecology

Tenkana jayamangali

Tags : Tenkana jayamangali

Topic: Biodiversity

Why in the news?

• A team of arachnologists has discovered a new genus of jumping spiders, ‘Tenkana’, found across southern India, encompassing two previously known species. It also introduced a new species, Tenkana jayamangali, from Karnataka.

Source: The Hindu 

About Tenkana jayamangali:

• It is a newly described species  named after the Jayamangali river in Karnataka, where it was first identified.
• It has been added in  a new genus of Tenkana jumping spiders from South Asia

Tenkana spiders:

• The genus Tenkana is derived from the Kannada word for “south” (Tenkana), reflecting the spiders’ distribution across southern India and northern Sri Lanka.
• It encompasses two previously known species: Tenkana manu and Tenkana arkavathi. These species were earlier classified under the genus Colopsus, which is a genus of Asian jumping spiders
• They have been found in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Telangana, and Andhra Pradesh, and they thrive in drier habitats and ground areas, unlike their forest-dwelling relatives.
• They belong to the Plexippina subtribe of jumping spiders. 

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