Bagheera (spider)

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Bagheera
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Bagheera kiplingi
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Bagheera
Peckham & Peckham, 1896 [1]
Type species
B. kiplingi
Peckham & Peckham, 1896
Species

4, see text

Bagheera is a genus of jumping spiders within the family Salticidae, subfamily Salticinae and subtribe Dendryphantina. [2] The genus was first described by George Peckham & Elizabeth Peckham in 1896. [3] The name is derived from Bagheera, a character from Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book . [4]

Contents

The type species Bagheera kiplingi is noted for its unique, primarily herbivorous diet of Beltian bodies. Male individuals within the genus may be identified by their elongate, horizontal, parallel chelicerae. [4]

Species

As of June 2019 it contains four species, found in Guatemala, Costa Rica, the United States, and Mexico: [5]

References

  1. ↑ Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Bagheera Peckham & Peckham, 1896". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-07-05.
  2. ↑ Maddison, Wayne P. (2015). "A phylogenetic classification of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae)". Journal of Arachnology. 43 (3): 231–292. doi:10.1636/arac-43-03-231-292. S2CID   85680279.
  3. 1 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.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Ruiz, Gustavo R. S.; Edwards, G. B. (2013). "Revision of Bagheera (Araneae: Salticidae: Dendryphantinae)". The Journal of Arachnology. 41 (1): 18–24. doi:10.1636/K12-67.1. ISSN   0161-8202. JSTOR   23610230. S2CID   84398593.
  5. ↑ Richman, D.B., Cutler, B., Hill, D.E. (9 February 2012). "Salticidae of North America, including Mexico" (PDF). Peckhamia. 95 (3): 1–88.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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