Spiders

Spiders

Any arachnid of the order Araneae, having a body divided into a cephalothorax with eight legs, two poison fangs, and two feelers as well as an unsegmented abdomen with several spinnerets that produce the silk used to make nests, cocoons, or webs for trapping insects.

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Bagheera kiplingi

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This spider was named bagheera kiplingi after bagheera, the black panther character in The Jungle Book, and the book's author Rudyard Kipling. It was seemingly named because of it's panther-like ...