Nagaina

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

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

1. 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.