Nagaina

{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}

{{For|the fictional cobra|Nagaina (Jungle Books)}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Nagaina

| authority = Peckham & Peckham, 1896

| type_species = N. incunda

| type_species_authority = Peckham & Peckham, 1896

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = 5, see text

}}

Nagaina is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by George and Elizabeth Peckham in 1896.{{cite journal| last1=Peckham| first1=G. W.| last2=Peckham| first2=E. G.| year=1896| title=Spiders of the family Attidae from Central America and Mexico| journal=Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin| pages=1–101| volume=3| author-link=George and Elizabeth Peckham| author-link2=George and Elizabeth Peckham}} 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.