Biology:Nilakantha (spider)

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Nilakantha
Temporal range: Neogene–present
Nilakantha male DOM09-8658.jpg
Male Nilakantha sp.
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Nilakantha
Peckham & Peckham, 1901[1]
Type species
Nilakantha cockerelli
Peckham & Peckham, 1901[1]
Species

See text.

Diversity[1]
4 species

Nilakantha is a spider genus of the jumping spider family, Salticidae.

Species

(As of November 2015), the World Spider Catalog accepted 4 species of Nilakantha:[1]

  • Nilakantha cockerelli Peckham & Peckham, 1901 – Hispaniola, Jamaica
  • Nilakantha crucifera (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901) – Panama
  • Nilakantha inerma (Bryant, 1940) – Cuba
  • Nilakantha peckhami Bryant, 1940 – Cuba

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Gen. Nilakantha Peckham & Peckham, 1901". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/4610. Retrieved 2015-12-09. 

Wikidata ☰ Q22286402 entry