Nagaina

Genus of spiders

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

Nagaina

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

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

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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

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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: 1–101.1-101&rft.date=1896&rft.aulast=Peckham&rft.aufirst=G.+W.&rft.au=Peckham,+E.+G.&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Nagaina" class="Z3988">

Taxon identifiers

Nagaina|

* Wikidata: Q508126
* ADW: Nagaina
* BioLib: 478220
* CoL: 5X3L
* EoL: 114357
* GBIF: 2170036
* iNaturalist: 250074
* IRMNG: 1343190
* ITIS: 872554
* Open Tree of Life: 3546729
* WSC: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:03087

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