{{Short description|Genus of spiders}} {{About|the genus of spiders|the US Navy patrol boat|USS Wasaka III (SP-342)}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Wasaka | authority = Haddad, 2013<ref name=NMBE /> | type_species = ''W. occulta'' | type_species_authority = Haddad, 2013 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = 4, see text }}
'''''Wasaka''''' is a genus of African corinnid sac spiders first described by C. R. Haddad in 2013.<ref name=Hadd2013>{{cite journal| last=Haddad| first=C. R.| year=2013| title=Taxonomic notes on the spider genus ''Messapus'' Simon, 1898 (Araneae, Corinnidae), with the description of the new genera ''Copuetta'' and ''Wasaka'' and the first cladistic analysis of Afrotropical Castianeirinae.| journal=Zootaxa| pages=1–79| volume=3688| doi=10.11646/zootaxa.3688.1.1| pmid=26146688}}</ref>
==Species== {{as of|2019|04}} it contains four species:<ref name=NMBE>{{cite journal| title=Gen. Wasaka Haddad, 2013| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| accessdate=2019-05-23| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/606| doi=10.24436/2}}</ref> *''Wasaka imitatrix'' <small>Haddad, 2013</small> – Tanzania *''Wasaka montana'' <small>Haddad, 2013</small> – Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda *''Wasaka occulta'' <small>Haddad, 2013</small> (type) – Tanzania *''Wasaka ventralis'' <small>Haddad, 2013</small> – Cameroon
==References== {{Reflist}}
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Category:Araneomorphae genera Category:Corinnidae Category:Taxa named by Charles R. Haddad
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