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Nagaina
Scientific classification Edit this 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
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

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

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

References

  1. ^ 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.
  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.


From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Nagaina
Scientific classification Edit this 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
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

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

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

References

  1. ^ 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.
  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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