Cosmophasis

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: Heliophaninae
Genus: Cosmophasis
Species: C. albipes – C. albomaculata – C. arborea – C. australis – C. bitaeniata – C. caerulea – C. chlorophthalma – C. chopardi – C. cypria – C. depilata – C. estrellaensis – C. fagei – C. fazanica – C. gemmans – C. lami – C. laticlavia – C. longiventris – C. lucidiventris – C. maculiventris – C. marxi – C. masarangi – C. micans – C. micarioides – C. miniaceomicans – C. modesta – C. monacha – C. muralis – C. nigrocyanea – C. obscura – C. olorina – C. orsimoides – C. parangpilota – C. psittacina – C. pulchella – C. quadricincta – C. quadrimaculata – C. risbeci – C. squamata – C. strandi – C. thalassina – C. tricincta – C. trioipina – C. trobriand – C. umbratica – C. undulata – C. viridifasciata – C. weyersi – C. xiaolonghaensis
Name

Cosmophasis Simon, 1901

Type species: Cosmophasis thalassina (C. L. Koch, 1846)
References

Caleb, J.T.D. & Karthikeyani, R. 2015. A new jumping spider of the genus Cosmophasis Simon 1901 (Araneae: Salticidae) from Maharashtra, India. Acta Arachnologica 64(2): 97-99. DOI: 10.2476/asjaa.64.97. Reference page.
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.
Żabka, M.; Waldock, J. 2012: Salticidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from Oriental, Australian and Pacific regions. Genus Cosmophasis Simon, 1901. Annales zoologici, 62(1): 115–198. DOI: 10.3161/000345412X633694

Links

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Nomenclator Zoologicus
Platnick, N. I. 2008. The World Spider Catalog, version 9.0. American Museum of Natural History. [1]

Vernacular names
English: Cosmophasis

Cosmophasis is a genus of spiders in the family Salticidae (jumping spiders). They are predominantly Southeast Asian,[2] while some species occur in Africa and Australia. Although most species more or less mimic ants, there are also colorful species[3] that follow a different strategy.

C. bitaeniata uses chemical mimicry to be accepted by the aggressive weaver ant species Oecophylla smaragdina.[4]

One species, said to be not a particularly good ant mimic, was observed living near and preying on ants. According to (Murphy & Murphy, 2000), "to watch the spider stalking and killing its prey is an arachnological spectacular".[5]
Description

Species in this genus are from 3.80 to 8.00 mm long. The cephalothoraxes are pear-shaped(for some males) or rectangular. [6]
Taxonomy
Cosmophasis sp. from the Philippines.

As of November 2021, the World Spider Catalog accepted the following species:[7]

Cosmophasis albipes Berland & Millot, 1941 – Guinea
Cosmophasis albomaculata Schenkel, 1944 – Timor
Cosmophasis ambonensis Hurni-Cranston & Hill, 2020 - Ambon Island
Cosmophasis arborea Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1997 – Caroline Islands
Cosmophasis baehrae Zabka & Waldock, 2012 - Australia
Cosmophasis bandaneira Hurni-Cranston & Hill, 2020 - Banda Islands
Cosmophasis banika Żabka & Waldock, 2012 - Solomon Islands
Cosmophasis bitaeniata (Keyserling, 1882) – New Guinea, Australia, Micronesia
Cosmophasis chlorophthalma (Simon, 1898) – New Hebrides
Cosmophasis chopardi Berland & Millot, 1941 – Ivory Coast
Cosmophasis colemani Żabka & Waldock, 2012 – Australia (Queensland)
Cosmophasis courti Żabka & Waldock, 2012 – New Guinea
Cosmophasis cypria (Thorell, 1890) – Java
Cosmophasis darwini Żabka & Waldock, 2012 – Australia (Northern Territory)
Cosmophasis depilata Caporiacco, 1940 – Ethiopia
Cosmophasis estrellaensis Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 – Philippines
Cosmophasis fazanica Caporiacco, 1936 – Libya
Cosmophasis gemmans (Thorell, 1890) – Sumatra
Cosmophasis harveyi Żabka & Waldock, 2012 – New Guinea
Cosmophasis hortoni Żabka & Waldock, 2012 – Solomon Is.
Cosmophasis humphreysi Żabka & Waldock, 2012 – New Guinea
Cosmophasis kairiru Żabka & Waldock, 2012 – New Guinea
Cosmophasis kohi Żabka & Waldock, 2012 – New Guinea
Cosmophasis lami Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1997 – East Asia, South East Asia, Pacific islands
Cosmophasis laticlavia (Thorell, 1892) – Sumatra
Cosmophasis lucidiventris Simon, 1910 – Gabon
Cosmophasis lungga Żabka & Waldock, 2012 – Solomon Islands
Cosmophasis maculiventris Strand, 1911 – Aru Islands
Cosmophasis masarangi Merian, 1911 – Sulawesi
Cosmophasis micans (L. Koch, 1880) – Queensland
Cosmophasis micarioides (L. Koch, 1880) – New Guinea, Queensland, Solomon Islands
Cosmophasis miniaceomicans (Simon, 1888) – Andaman Islands
Cosmophasis modesta (L. Koch, 1880) – Queensland
Cosmophasis monacha (Thorell, 1881) – New Guinea
Cosmophasis motmot Żabka & Waldock, 2012 – New Guinea
Cosmophasis obscura (Keyserling, 1882) – Queensland
Cosmophasis olorina (Simon, 1901) – Sri Lanka
Cosmophasis ombria (Thorell, 1877) – Indonesia (Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, Krakatau)
Cosmophasis orsimoides Strand, 1911 – Kei Islands
Cosmophasis panjangensis Żabka & Waldock, 2012 – Indonesia (Krakatau)
Cosmophasis parangpilota Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 – Philippines
Cosmophasis psittacina (Thorell, 1887) – Myanmar
Cosmophasis pulchella Caporiacco, 1947 – Ethiopia
Cosmophasis quadricincta (Simon, 1885) – Singapore
Cosmophasis rakata Żabka & Waldock, 2012 – Indonesia (Krakatau)
Cosmophasis risbeci Berland, 1938 – New Hebrides
Cosmophasis sertungensis Żabka & Waldock, 2012 – Indonesia (Krakatau)
Cosmophasis squamata Kulczyński, 1910 – Solomon Islands, Seychelles
Cosmophasis strandi Caporiacco, 1947 – East Africa
Cosmophasis tavurvur Żabka & Waldock, 2012 – New Guinea
Cosmophasis thalassina (C. L. Koch, 1846) – Malaysia to Australia
Cosmophasis tricincta Simon, 1910 – Bioko
Cosmophasis trioipina Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 – Philippines
Cosmophasis tristriatus (L. Koch, 1880) – Palau Is.
Cosmophasis trobriand Żabka & Waldock, 2012 – New Guinea
Cosmophasis umbratica Simon, 1903 – India to Sumatra
Cosmophasis valerieae Prószyński & Deeleman-Reinhold, 2010 – Indonesia (Java, Lesser Sunda Is.)
Cosmophasis viridifasciata (Doleschall, 1859) – Sumatra to New Guinea
Cosmophasis waeri Hurni-Cranston & Hill, 2020 - Banda Islands
Cosmophasis weyersi (Simon, 1899) – Sumatra
Cosmophasis xiaolonghaensis Cao & Li, 2016

In 2012, Marek Żabka and Julianne Waldock proposed 5 new species groups, it being the C.thalassina species group, C. bitaeniata species group, C. micarioides species group, C. tristriatus species group, and the C. rakata species group.[6] Formerly placed in this genus include:[7]

Cosmophasis australis Simon, 1902 → Phintella australis
Cosmophasis caerulea Simon, 1901 → Mexcala caerulea
Cosmophasis fagei Lessert, 1925 → Icius fagei
Cosmophasis nigrocyanea (Simon, 1885) → Mexcala nigrocyanea
Cosmophasis quadrimaculata Lawrence, 1942 → Mexcala quadrimaculata
Cosmophasis longiventris Simon, 1903 → Chrysilla lauta

References

Simon, Eugène (1892). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Smithsonian Libraries. Paris : Roret. pp. 553–554. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973. LCCN agr08000137. OCLC 1046005797.
Donovan, B.; Hill, D. E. (30 April 2017). "Report of Cosmophasis feeding on butterfly eggs in Queensland (Araneae: Salticidae: Chrysillini)". Peckhamia. 149 (1). eISSN 1944-8120. ISSN 2161-8526.
Jerzy Proszynski: Cosmophasis
Nelson, Ximena .J; Jackson, Robert R.; Edwards, G.B.; Barrion, Alberto T. (2006). "Living with the enemy: jumping spiders that mimic weaver ants" (PDF). The Journal of Arachnology. 33 (3): 813–819. doi:10.1636/S04-12.1. S2CID 52000089.
Murphy, John; Murphy, Frances (1 January 2000). An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian Nature Society. ISBN 978-9839681178.
Żabka, Marek; Waldock, Julianne (2012). "Salticidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from oriental, Australian and Pacific Regions. Genus Cosmophasis Simon, 1901" (PDF). Annales Zoologici. 62 (1): 115–198. doi:10.3161/000345412X633694. eISSN 1734-1833. ISSN 0003-4541. S2CID 84374906.

"Gen. Cosmophasis Simon, 1901". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2021-11-20.