Araneotanna is a spider genus of the jumping spider family, Salticidae with only one species, A. ornatipes, that occurs only on the New Hebrides.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Salticinae |
| Genus: | Araneotanna Özdikmen & Kury, 2006 |
| Species: | A. ornatipes
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| Binomial name | |
| Araneotanna ornatipes (Berland, 1938)
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Name
editThe genus was named Tanna until 2006, when it had to be replaced due to a conflict with a genus of the same name in the Hemipteran family Cicadidae, Tanna Distant, 1905.
Tanna is an island of Vanuatu. The salticid genus Efate is also named after an island of Vanuatu.
References
edit- Özdikmen, Hüseyin; Kury, Adriano Brilhante (2006). "Three Homonymous Generic Names in Araneae and Opiliones". Journal of Arachnology. 34: 279–280. doi:10.1636/H04-47.1. S2CID 85832483.
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