Tabuina, Maddison, Wayne P., 2009

Maddison, Wayne P., 2009, New cocalodine jumping spiders from Papua New Guinea (Araneae: Salticidae: Cocalodinae), Zootaxa 2021, pp. 1-22 : 10

Genus Tabuina new genus

Type species: Tabuina varirata Maddison , new species.

Etymology. The name is based on " tabui ", the word for "spider" in the language of the Koairi people, on whose land I first collected the type species. The name is to be treated as feminine.

Diagnosis. Lacks the elongate chelicerae and intercheliceral horn characteristic of male Cocalodes and Allococalodes . All three species of Tabuina have heavily sclerotized conductors in the male palpus, as in Cocalodes . Two of the species, T. varirata and T. baiteta , are large-bodied and have large conductors that similarly cradle the tip of the embolus; the copulatory ducts enter the spermathecae dorsally. The third species, T. rufa , has a smaller body and a distinctively different palpus. Tabuina rufa may eventually deserve to be placed apart from the others, but is tentatively placed in Tabuina until more data or additional species are discovered.