Wasaka
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Corinnidae
Genus: Wasaka
Haddad, 2013[1]
Type species
W. occulta
Haddad, 2013
Species

4, see text

Wasaka is a genus of African corinnid sac spiders first described by C. R. Haddad in 2013.[2]

Species

As of April 2019 it contains four species:[1]

  • Wasaka imitatrix Haddad, 2013 – Tanzania
  • Wasaka montana Haddad, 2013 – Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda
  • Wasaka occulta Haddad, 2013 (type) – Tanzania
  • Wasaka ventralis Haddad, 2013 – Cameroon

References

  1. 1 2 "Gen. Wasaka Haddad, 2013". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-23.
  2. Haddad, C. R. (2013). "Taxonomic notes on the spider genus Messapus Simon, 1898 (Araneae, Corinnidae), with the description of the new genera Copuetta and Wasaka and the first cladistic analysis of Afrotropical Castianeirinae". Zootaxa. 3688: 1–79. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3688.1.1. PMID 26146688.


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