Does a shiny green Central American jumping spider look anything like Bagheera in “The Jungle Book”?
No, but its scientific name is "Bagheera kiplingi", the result of being discovered & named in 1896 by two scientist fans of Kipling’s books, George and Elizabeth Peckham. They also discovered and named other jumping spiders that they named Akela, Messua, and Nagaina, after Mowgli’s wolf father, the rich Indian woman who adopts Mowgli, and the female cobra in “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi”.
Does a shiny green Central American jumping spider look anything like Bagheera in “The Jungle Book”?
No, but its scientific name is "Bagheera kiplingi", the result of being discovered & named in 1896 by two scientist fans of Kipling’s books, George and Elizabeth Peckham. They also discovered and named other jumping spiders that they named Akela, Messua, and Nagaina, after Mowgli’s wolf father, the rich Indian woman who adopts Mowgli, and the female cobra in “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagheera_kiplingi
Fred Patten