Tara (spider)

{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}

{{About|a genus of spiders|other uses|Tara (disambiguation){{!}}Tara}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Tara (spider)

| authority = Peckham & Peckham, 1886

| type_species = T. anomala

| type_species_authority = (Keyserling, 1882)

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision =

• T. anomala (Keyserling, 1882) – Australia (New South Wales)
• T. gratiosa (Rainbow, 1920) – Australia (Lord Howe Is.)
• T. parvula (Keyserling, 1883) – Australia (New South Wales)

}}

Tara is a genus of Australian jumping spiders that was first described by George and Elizabeth Peckham in 1886.{{cite journal| last1=Peckham| first1=G. W.| last2=Peckham| first2=E. G.| year=1886| title=Genera of the family Attidae: with a partial synonymy| journal=Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters| pages=255–342| volume=6| author-link=George and Elizabeth Peckham| author-link2=George and Elizabeth Peckham}} {{as of|2019|08}} it contains only three species, found only in New South Wales: T. anomala, T. gratiosa, and T. parvula.{{cite journal| title=Gen. Tara Peckham & Peckham, 1886| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| access-date=2019-09-26| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2996| doi=10.24436/2}}