Nagaina

Nagaina
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Dendryphantinae
Genus: Nagaina
Peckham & Peckham, 1896
Type species
Nagaina incunda
Peckham & Peckham, 1896
Species

see text

Diversity
6 species

Nagaina is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders).[1]

The genus name is derived from Nagaina, a female black cobra animal-character from Rudyard Kipling's story Rikki-Tikki-Tavi. Other salticid genera with names of Kipling's characters are Bagheera, Messua and Akela.

Species

References

  1. "Nagaina". World Spider Catalog. Retrieved 10 July 2017.
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