Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Classis: Arachnida
Ordo: Araneae
Subordo: Opisthothelae
Infraordo: Araneomorphae
Taxon: Neocribellatae
Series: Entelegynae
Sectio: Dionycha
Superfamilia: Salticoidea
Familia: Salticidae
Subfamilia: Freyinae
Genus: Akela
Species: A. charlottae – A. fulva – A. ruricola
Name
Akela Peckham & Peckham, 1896
Type species: Akela charlottae George William Peckham & Elizabeth Maria Gifford Peckham, 1896
References
Additional references
Edwards, G.B. 2015. Freyinae, a major new subfamily of Neotropical jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae). Zootaxa 4036(1): 1–87. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4036.1.1. Preview (PDF) ISBN 978-1-77557-821-5 (paperback); ISBN 978-1-77557-822-2 (Online edition) Reference page.
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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