Bagheera (spider)

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

see text

Diversity
4 species

Bagheera is a genus of jumping spiders. There are four species.

Name

The genus name is derived from Bagheera, the black-toned Leopard from Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book. Other salticid genera with names of Kipling's characters are Akela, Messua and Nagaina.

Species

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