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]
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| Bagheera kiplingi | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| 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
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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 edit
As of June 2019[update] 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 edit
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ a b c d 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.
- ^ Richman, D.B., Cutler, B., Hill, D.E. (9 February 2012). "Salticidae of North America, including Mexico" (PDF). Peckhamia. 95 (3): 1–88.
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