5, see text Nagaina is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by George and Elizabeth Peckham in 1896.

[2] 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.

As of July 2019[update] it contains five species, found in Panama, Mexico, Brazil, and on the Greater Antilles:[1]

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