Akela (spider)
Appearance
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Akela | |
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Male Akela from Ecuador | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
Family: | Salticidae |
Subfamily: | Salticinae |
Genus: | Akela Peckham & Peckham, 1896 |
Species | |
Akela is a genus of jumping spiders (family Salticidae), consisting of three described species. Two of these occur in Central and South America and the third in Pakistan.
Name
[edit]The genus name is derived from Akela, "The Lone Wolf" from Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book. Other salticid genera with names of Kipling's characters are Bagheera, Messua and Nagaina.
Species
[edit]- Akela charlottae Peckham & Peckham, 1896, found in Central America (Guatemala, Panama).
- Akela fulva Dyal, 1935, found in Pakistan.
- Akela ruricola Galiano, 1999, found in South America (Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina).
References
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Galiano, M. E. (1989), "Note on the genera Admestina and Akela (Araneae, Salticidae)", Bull. British Arachnol. Soc., 8(2): 49-50.
External links
[edit]- Diagnostic drawings of A. ruricola Archived 2011-05-17 at the Wayback Machine