Biology:Nagaina
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Short description: Genus of spiders
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Scientific classification 
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| 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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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, 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
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). Gen. Nagaina Peckham & Peckham, 1896. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2804. 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.
Wikidata ☰ Q508126 entry
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