Nagaina
Appearance
Nagaina | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
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
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Species | |
5, see text |
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.
Species
[edit]As of July 2019[update] 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
[edit]- ^ a b 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.
- ^ 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.