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Nagaina
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Nagaina

Nagaina is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by George and Elizabeth Peckham in 1896. 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.

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4 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Nagaina incunda

speciesNagaina incunda

Nagaina berlandi

speciesNagaina berlandi

Nagaina diademata

speciesNagaina diademata

Nagaina tricincta

speciesNagaina tricincta

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 250074.