# Wasaka

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{{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](/source/Charles_R._Haddad), 2013<ref name=NMBE />
| type_species = ''[W. occulta](/source/Wasaka_occulta)''
| type_species_authority = Haddad, 2013
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = 4, see text
}}

'''''Wasaka''''' is a [genus](/source/genus) of [Africa](/source/Africa)n [corinnid sac spiders](/source/Corinnidae) 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](/source/Wasaka_imitatrix)'' <small>Haddad, 2013</small> – Tanzania
*''[Wasaka montana](/source/Wasaka_montana)'' <small>Haddad, 2013</small> – Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda
*''[Wasaka occulta](/source/Wasaka_occulta)'' <small>Haddad, 2013</small> ([type](/source/Type_species)) – Tanzania
*''[Wasaka ventralis](/source/Wasaka_ventralis)'' <small>Haddad, 2013</small> – Cameroon

==References==
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Category:Araneomorphae genera
Category:Corinnidae
Category:Taxa named by Charles R. Haddad

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