Rudra (spider)

This article is about a genus of spiders. For other uses, see Rudra (disambiguation).

Rudra is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by George and Elizabeth Peckham in 1885. The name refers to Rudra, a Rigvedic god.^[2]

Rudra
Male Rudra sp. in Ecuador
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Salticidae
Subfamily:	Salticinae
Genus:	Rudra Peckham & Peckham, 1885[1]
Type species
R. geniculata Peckham & Peckham, 1885
Species
10, see text
Synonyms[1]
Anokopsis Bauab-Vianna & Soares, 1980

Species

As of July 2023^[update] it contains ten species, found in Central America, Brazil, Guyana, Argentina, and French Guiana:^[1]

• Rudra avitoides (Bauab-Vianna & Soares, 1980) – Brazil
• Rudra brescoviti Braul & Lise, 1999 – Brazil
• Rudra geniculata Peckham & Peckham, 1885 (type) – Guatemala, Panama
• Rudra humilis Mello-Leitão, 1945 – Argentina, Brazil
• Rudra minensis Galiano, 1984 – Brazil
• Rudra multispina Caporiacco, 1947 – Guyana
• Rudra oriximina Galiano, 1984 – Brazil
• Rudra polita Peckham & Peckham, 1894 – Guatemala
• Rudra tenera Peckham & Peckham, 1894 – Brazil
• Rudra wagae (Taczanowski, 1871) – French Guiana