Nagaina

Nagaina is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by George and Elizabeth Peckham in 1896.[2] The name is derived from Nagaina, a character from Rudyard Kipling's Rikki-Tikki-Tavi. Other salticid genera with names of Kipling's characters include Bagheera, Messua, and Akela.

For the fictional cobra, see Nagaina (Jungle Books).

Nagaina
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Nagaina
Peckham & Peckham, 1896[1]
Type species
N. incunda
Peckham & Peckham, 1896
Species

5, see text

Species

As of July 2019 it contains five species, found in Panama, Mexico, Brazil, and on the Greater Antilles:[1]

  • Nagaina berlandi Soares & Camargo, 1948 – Brazil
  • Nagaina diademata Simon, 1902 – Brazil
  • Nagaina incunda Peckham & Peckham, 1896 (type) – Mexico to Panama
  • Nagaina olivacea Franganillo, 1930 – Cuba
  • Nagaina tricincta Simon, 1902 – Brazil

References
  1. Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Nagaina Peckham & Peckham, 1896". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-08-06.
  2. Peckham, G. W.; Peckham, E. G. (1896). "Spiders of the family Attidae from Central America and Mexico". Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin. 3: 1–101.


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