Nagaina

{{Short description|Genus of spiders}} {{For|the fictional cobra|Nagaina (Jungle Books)}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Nagaina | authority = Peckham & Peckham, 1896<ref name=NMBE /> | type_species = ''N. incunda'' | type_species_authority = Peckham & Peckham, 1896 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = 5, see text }} '''''Nagaina''''' is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by George and Elizabeth Peckham in 1896.<ref name=Peck1896>{{cite journal| last1=Peckham| first1=G. W.| last2=Peckham| first2=E. G.| year=1896| title=Spiders of the family Attidae from Central America and Mexico| journal=Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin| pages=1–101| volume=3| author-link=George and Elizabeth Peckham| author-link2=George and Elizabeth Peckham}}</ref> 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''.

==Species== {{as of|2019|07}} it contains five species, found in Panama, Mexico, Brazil, and on the Greater Antilles:<ref name=NMBE>{{cite journal| title=Gen. Nagaina Peckham & Peckham, 1896| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| accessdate=2019-08-06| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2804| doi=10.24436/2| last1=Gloor| first1=Daniel| last2=Nentwig| first2=Wolfgang| last3=Blick| first3=Theo| last4=Kropf| first4=Christian}}</ref> *''Nagaina berlandi'' Soares & Camargo, 1948 – Brazil *''Nagaina diademata'' Simon, 1902 – Brazil *''Nagaina incunda'' Peckham & Peckham, 1896 (type) – Mexico to Panama *''Nagaina olivacea'' Franganillo, 1930 – Cuba *''Nagaina tricincta'' Simon, 1902 – Brazil

==References== {{Reflist}}

Category:Salticidae genera Category:Salticidae Category:Spiders of Central America Category:Spiders of Mexico Category:Spiders of South America