Colopsus is a genus of Asian jumping spiders first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1902.[2] It was synonymized with Evarcha in 1984,[3] but the name was revalidated in 2021.[4] It is a senior synonym of Cheliceroides.[5]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Genus: | Colopsus Simon, 1902[1] |
| Type species | |
| C. cancellatus Simon, 1902
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| Species | |
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Species
editAs of November 2024[update], the World Spider Catalog accepted five species:[1]
- C. cancellatus Simon, 1902 (type) – Sri Lanka
- C. ferruginus Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2021 – Sri Lanka
- C. magnus Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2021 – Sri Lanka
- C. peppara Sudhin, Sen & Caleb, 2023 – India
- C. tenuesi Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2021 – Sri Lanka
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b "Gen. Colopsus Simon, 1902". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2024-11-16.
- ^ Simon, E. (1902). "Etudes arachnologiques. 32e Mémoire. LI. Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles de la famille des Salticidae (suite)". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (in French). 71 (1–2): 389–421.
- ^ Prószyński, J. (1984). "Atlas rysunków diagnostycznych mniej znanych Salticidae (Araneae)" [Atlas of lesser known diagnostic drawings for Salticidae (Araneae)]. Zeszyty Naukowe Wyższej Szkoły Rolniczo-Pedagogicznej w Siedlcach (in Polish). 2: 1–177.
- ^ Kanesharatnam, N.; Benjamin, S. P. (2021). "Phylogenetic relationships and systematics of the jumping spider genus Colopsus with the description of eight new species from Sri Lanka (Araneae: Salticidae)". Journal of Natural History. 54 (43–44): 2763–2814. doi:10.1080/00222933.2020.1869335. S2CID 234811600.
- ^ Logunov, D. V. (2021). "Jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) of the Na Hang Nature Reserve, Tuyen Quang Province, Vietnam". Arachnology. 18 (9): 1021–1055. doi:10.13156/arac.2021.18.9.1021. S2CID 243989656.
Further reading
edit- Logunov, D. V. (2021). "New species and records of the jumping spiders from India and Nepal (Aranei: Salticidae)". Arthropoda Selecta. 30 (3): 351–361. doi:10.15298/arthsel.30.3.08. S2CID 239794511.
- Prószyński, J. (2018). "Review of genera Evarcha and Nigorella, with comments on Emertonius, Padilothorax [sic], Stagetillus, and description of five new genera and two new species (Araneae: Salticidae)". Ecologica Montenegrina. 16: 130–179. doi:10.37828/em.2018.16.12.
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