Tusitala

{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}

{{about|the genus of spiders|the writer known to the Samoans as Tusitala|Robert Louis Stevenson}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Tusitala

| authority = Peckham & Peckham, 1902

| type_species = T. barbata

| type_species_authority = Peckham & Peckham, 1902

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = 10, see text

| synonyms =

• Blaisea Simon, 1903

| synonyms_ref =

}}

Tusitala is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by George and Elizabeth Peckham in 1902.{{cite journal| last1=Peckham| first1=G. W.| last2=Peckham| first2=E. G.| year=1902| title=Some new genera and species of Attidae from South Africa| journal=Psyche: A Journal of Entomology| pages=330–335| volume=9| issue=312| doi=10.1155/1902/13502| author-link=George and Elizabeth Peckham| author-link2=George and Elizabeth Peckham| doi-access=free}} The name is Samoan, meaning "writer of stories". It is considered a senior synonym of Blaisea.{{cite journal| last1=Wesolowska| first1=W.| last2=Tomasiewicz| first2=B.| year=2003| title=Blaisea Simon, 1902 synonymised with Tusitala Peckham et Peckham, 1902 (Araneae: Salticidae)| journal=Annales Zoologici, Warszawa| volume=53| page=719}}