Cosmophasis squamata is a species of jumping spider in the family Salticidae, native to the Solomon Islands and Seychelles .[1] It was described by Władysław Kulczyński in 1910.[2][3]

Cosmophasis squamata
Female from Banda, Indonesia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Cosmophasis
Species:
C. squamata
Binomial name
Cosmophasis squamata

Description

edit

The holotype of this species is a female and the mature male is undescribed, although a premature male has been spotted. It is possible that Cosmophasis bandaneira might be the male.[4]

References

edit
  1. ^ "Global Species Database of Salticidae". salticidae.pl. Retrieved 2021-11-21.
  2. ^ Kulczyński, W. (1910). "Araneae et Arachnoidea Arthrogastra". Botanische und zoologische Ergebnisse einer wissenschaftlichen Forschungreise nach den Samoainsiln, dem Neuguinea-Archipel und den Solomon inseln von Marz bis Dezember 1905 von Dr Karl Rechinger. III Teil. Denkschrift der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien. Vol. 85. pp. 389–411.
  3. ^ Saaristo, Michael I. Saaristo, Michael.I (2002). New species and interesting new records of spiders from Seychelles (Arachnida, Areneaea). p. 24.
  4. ^ Tiziano, Hurni-Cranston; Hill, David E. (3 February 2021). "Three new jumping spiders of the genus Cosmophasis from Wallacea (Araneae: Salticidae: Chrysillini" (PDF). Peckhamia. 228 (1): 1―84. doi:10.31289/jiph.v6i2.2989.s278. eISSN 1944-8120. ISSN 2161-8526.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)