Biology:Bagheera (spider)

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Bagheera
Bagheera kiplingi (cropped).jpg
Bagheera kiplingi
Scientific classification e
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
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]

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. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2528. 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 
  3. 3.0 3.1 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. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 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. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/229388. 
  5. Richman, D.B., Cutler, B., Hill, D.E. (9 February 2012). "Salticidae of North America, including Mexico". Peckhamia 95 (3): 1–88. http://www.peckhamia.com/peckhamia/PECKHAMIA_95.3.pdf. 


External links

Wikidata ☰ Q295008 entry