# Ballagascar

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***Ballagascar*** is a [monotypic](/source/Monotypic_taxon) [genus](/source/Genus) of east African [jumping spiders](/source/Jumping_spider) containing the single species, ***Ballagascar insularis***. The genus was first described by G. N. Azarkina and C. R. Haddad in 2020,[2] and it has only been found in [Madagascar](/source/Madagascar).[1] The type species, *Ballagascar insularis*, was originally described under the name "*Homalattus insularis"*.[3]

## See also

- *[Homalattus](/source/Homalattus)*
- *[Colaxes](/source/Colaxes)*
- [List of Salticidae genera](/source/List_of_Salticidae_genera)

## References

1. ["Gen. Ballagascar Azarkina & Haddad, 2020"](http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/5862). *World Spider Catalog Version 20.0*. Natural History Museum Bern. 2022. [doi:10.24436/2](https://doi.org/10.24436/2). Retrieved 2022-03-07.

1. ["Partial revision of the Afrotropical Ballini, with the description of seven new genera (Araneae: Salticidae)"](https://wsc.nmbe.ch/reference/15612). *Zootaxa*. **4899** (1): 15–92. 2020. [doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4899.1.4](https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4899.1.4)

1. ["On some new genera and species of the Attidae, from Madagascar and Central America"](https://wsc.nmbe.ch/reference/778). *Proceedings of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin*. **1885**: 23–42, pl. 1885.

## Further reading

- ["*Colaxes insularis* (Peckham & Peckham, 1885) is a valid species of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae: Ballinae)"](https://wsc.nmbe.ch/reference/15049). *Israel Journal of Entomology*. **49** (1): 57–61. 2019. [doi:10.5281/zenodo.3539465](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3539465)

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