Bagheera Kiplingi – The Vegetarian Spider

If the name Bagheera kiplingi sounds like something out of The Jungle Book, then you are exactly right.  Bagheera kiplingi – a name created for a unique species of jumping spider – has a genus name derived from the panther Bagheera in The Jungle Book, and a species name honoring the book’s author – Rudyard [...]

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