Bagheera (spider)

Bagheera is a genus of jumping spiders within the family Salticidae and subfamily Dendryphantinae.[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]

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

4, see text

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]

  • Bagheera kiplingi (Peckham & Peckham, 1896) (type) – Mexico to Costa Rica[3]
  • Bagheera laselva (Ruiz & Edwards, 2013) – Costa Rica[4]
  • Bagheera motagua (Ruiz & Edwards, 2013) – Guatemala[4]
  • Bagheera prosper (Peckham & Peckham, 1901) – USA, Mexico


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. "Bagheera". tolweb.org. Retrieved 2019-11-02.
  3. 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. 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.
  5. Richman, D.B., Cutler, B., Hill, D.E. (9 February 2012). "Salticidae of North America, including Mexico" (PDF). Peckhamia. 95 (3): 1–88.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)



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