tarkas

{{Short description|Genus of spiders}}

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| image = Male Tarkas maculatipes 02.jpg

| image_caption = male Tarkas maculatipes

| taxon = Tarkas maculatipes

| parent_authority = Edwards, 2015

| authority = (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901)

| display_parents = 2

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Tarkas is a genus of the jumping spider family, Salticidae. The single described species, Tarkas maculatipes, is found in Mexico and Guatemala.{{cite web |title=Gen. Tarkas Edwards, 2015 |work=World Spider Catalog |publisher=Natural History Museum Bern |url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/5521 |access-date=2017-02-20 }}

The genus is named after the character Tars Tarkas from the Edgar Rice Burroughs novel A Princess of Mars.{{Cite journal|last=Edwards|first=G. B.|date=2015-11-02|title=Freyinae, a major new subfamily of Neotropical jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae)|url=http://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4036.1.1|journal=Zootaxa|language=en|volume=4036|issue=1|page=63|doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4036.1.1|pmid=26624463|issn=1175-5334}}