Akela (spider)

This article is about a genus of spiders. For other uses, see Akela.

Akela
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:
Peckham & Peckham, 1896
Species

See text.

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

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

  • 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

Further reading

  • Galiano, M. E. (1989), "Note on the genera Admestina and Akela (Araneae, Salticidae)", Bull. British Arachnol. Soc., 8(2): 49-50.


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