Cocalus

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Classis: Arachnida
Ordo: Araneae
Subordo: Opisthothelae
Infraordo: Araneomorphae
Taxon: Neocribellatae
Series: Entelegynae
Sectio: Dionycha
Superfamilia: Salticoidea

Familia: Salticidae
Subfamilia: Spartaeinae
Genus: Cocalus
Species: C. concolor – C. gibbosus – C. lacinia – C. limbatus – C. menglaensis – C. murinus
Name

Cocalus Koch, 1846

Type species: Cocalus concolor Carl Ludwig Koch, 1846

gender: masculine
References
Primary references

Koch C.L. 1846. Die Arachniden. J.L. Lotzbeck, Nürnberg, Dreizehnter Band, pp. 1-234, pl. 433-468 (f. 1078-1271); Vierzehnter Band, pp. 1-88, pl. 467-480 (f. 1272-1342). Reference page.

Additional references

Cao, Q., Li, S-Q. & Żabka, M. 2016. The jumping spiders from Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, China (Araneae, Salticidae). ZooKeys 630: 43–104. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.630.8466. Reference page.
Sudhin, P.P., Nafin, K.S., Sumesh, N.V. & Sudhikumar A.V. 2019. A new spider species of the genus Cocalus C.L. Koch, 1846 (Araneae: Salticidae: Spartaeinae) from the Western Ghats of India. Arthropoda Selecta 28(1): 125-130. DOI: 10.15298/arthsel.28.1.10. Open access. Reference page.
Wanless, F. R. 1981. A revision of the spider genus Cocalus (Araneae: Salticidae). Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Zoology) 41: 253–261.

Links

Platnick, N. I. 2009. The World Spider Catalog, version 9.5. American Museum of Natural History. [1]

Cocalus is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Carl Ludwig Koch in 1846, and is named after Cocalus, a Sicilian king of Greek mythology.[2]

At least one species, Cocalus gibbosus, does not adhere to spider silk and will sometimes invade the webs of other spiders and stalk across the webs to feed on them,[3] preferring spiders over insects in its diet.[4] However, unlike other araneophagic jumping spiders like Portia, Cocalus gibbosus does not pluck on the webs of other spiders.[3]
Species

As of June 2019 it contains six species, found only in Asia, Australia, and Papua New Guinea:[1]

Cocalus concolor C. L. Koch, 1846 (type) – Indonesia, New Guinea
Cocalus gibbosus Wanless, 1981 – Australia (Queensland)
Cocalus lacinia Sudhin, Nafin, Sumesh & Sudhikumar, 2019 – India
Cocalus limbatus Thorell, 1878 – Indonesia
Cocalus menglaensis Cao & Li, 2016 – China
Cocalus murinus Simon, 1899 – India, Indonesia, Singapore (Sumatra)

References

"Gen. Cocalus C. L. Koch, 1846". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-06.
Koch, C. L. (1846). Die Arachniden.
Jackson, Robert R. (1990-10-01). "Predatory and nesting behaviour of Cocalus gibbosus, a spartaeine jumping spider (Araneae: Salticidae) from Queensland". New Zealand Journal of Zoology. 17 (4): 483–490. doi:10.1080/03014223.1990.10422947. ISSN 0301-4223.
Jackson, Robert R. (2000-01-01). "Prey preferences and visual discrimination ability of Brettus, Cocalus and Cyrba, araneophagic jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from Australia, Kenya and Sri Lanka". New Zealand Journal of Zoology. 27 (1): 29–39. doi:10.1080/03014223.2000.9518206. ISSN 0301-4223.