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Genus: Tenkana Marathe, Maddison & Caleb, 2024 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Tenkana manu (Caleb, Christudhas, Laltanpuii & Chitra, 2014)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED | TYPE SPECIES

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:047093

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Described:

Distribution: India, Sri Lanka

External Resources*: Jumping Spiders of the World Metzner (2026) | Salticidae Database Prószyński (2025) | GBIF

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: National Institute of Fundamental Studies (NIFS), Kandy, Sri Lanka m (SAL_648) of Colopsus cinereus - (Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2021)
Holotype: Southern Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Chennai (SRC-ZSI/ZSIC), India m (I/SP 12) - (Caleb, 2020b)
Paratype: Southern Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Chennai (SRC-ZSI/ZSIC), India 1m 2f (I/SP 13-15) - (Caleb, 2020b)
Paratype: National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bangalore/Bengaluru, Karnataka, India 1f (QA451) - (Caleb, 2020b)

Taxonomic References

Hyllus manu Caleb et al., 2014: 635, f. 1-10 (Dmf) Original description

Hyllus manu Caleb, 2020b: 15734, f. 16F-H, 28F-G (mf)

Colopsus cinereus Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2021: 2779, f. 8a-e, 9a-b (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:053065]

Colopsus cinereus Logunov, 2021d: 355, f. 15-26 (m, Df)

Colopsus manu Caleb et al., 2022c: 475, f. 17-21 (mf, T from Hyllus, S of Colopsus cinereus)

Tenkana manu Marathe et al., 2024b: 98 (T from Colopsus)

References

Caleb, J. T. D., Christudhas, A., Laltanpuii, K. & Chitra, M. (2014). New species of Hyllus C. L. Koch (Araneae: Salticidae) from India. Munis Entomology and Zoology 9(2): 634-637. -- Show included taxa

Caleb, J. T. D. (2020b). Spider (Arachnida: Araneae) fauna of the scrub jungle in the Madras Christian College campus, Chennai, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 12(7): 15711-15766. doi: 10.11609/jott.5758.12.7.15711-15766 -- Show included taxa

Caleb, J. T. D., Lohit, Y. T., Abhijith, A. P. C. & Packiam, S. M. (2022c). A new species and new synonym in the genus Colopsus Simon, 1902 (Araneae: Salticidae: Plexippina) from India. Arthropoda Selecta 31(4): 470-476. doi: 10.15298/arthsel.31.4.07 -- Show included taxa

Kanesharatnam, N. & Benjamin, S. P. (2021). Phylogenetic relationships and systematics of the jumping spider genus Colopsus with the description of eight new species from Sri Lanka (Araneae: Salticidae). Journal of Natural History 54(43-44): 2763-2814. doi: 10.1080/00222933.2020.1869335 -- Show included taxa

Logunov, D. V. (2021d). New species and records of the jumping spiders from India and Nepal (Aranei: Salticidae). Arthropoda Selecta 30(3): 351-361. doi: 10.15298/arthsel.30.3.08 -- Show included taxa

Marathe, K., Caleb, J. T. D., Maddison, W. P., Nisha, B. G., Maliye, C. C., Lohit, Y. T. & Kunte, K. (2024b). Tenkana, a new genus of jumping spiders (Salticidae, Plexippina) from South Asia, with the new Indian species Tenkana jayamangali. ZooKeys 1215: 91-106. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1215.133522 -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Metzner, H. (2026). Jumping spiders (Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae) of the world. Online at https://www.jumping-spiders.com.

Prószyński, J. (2025). Salticidae (Araneae) Genera of the World "a management tool for developing a new system of Salticidae" - a scrollable e-Textbook. Version December 20th, 2025, online at http://www.salticidae.pl.

GBIF.org (2026). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [8 January 2026]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Comment
2024-10-11	New taxonomic reference entry	Marathe et al., 2024b
2024-10-11	Species transferred to new genus	Marathe et al., 2024b	Species transferred from Colopsus to Tenkana
2022-12-19	Species synonymy	Caleb et al., 2022c	Colopsus cinereus synonymized with Colopsus manu
2022-12-19	New taxonomic reference entry	Caleb et al., 2022c
2022-12-19	Species transferred to new genus	Caleb et al., 2022c	Species transferred from Hyllus to Colopsus
2020-05-18	New taxonomic reference entry	Caleb, 2020b
2014-09-09	New taxonomic reference entry	Caleb et al., 2014
2014-09-09	New species inserted	Caleb et al., 2014