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A team of arachnologists has discovered a new genus of jumping spiders, ‘Tenkana’, found across southern India, encompassing two previously known species.

‘Tenkana’ meaning ‘south’ in Kannada. The name is to acknowledge all known species of the genus found in the southern part of the Indian subcontinent.

At present, there are three species documented under the genus Tenkana—Tenkana jayamangali (current), Tenkana arkavathi (discovered in 2022 from the Nandi hills, Karnataka) and Tenkana manu (present in Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Sri Lanka).

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