Colaxes
{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| taxon = Colaxes
| authority = Simon, 1900
| type_species = C. nitidiventris
| type_species_authority = Simon, 1900
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = 4, see text
}}
Colaxes is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1900.{{cite journal| last=Simon| first=E.| year=1900| title=Descriptions d'arachnides nouveaux de la famille des Attidae| journal=Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique| pages=381–407| volume=44| author-link=Eugène Simon}}
Species
{{as of|2019|06}} it contains four species, found only in India, Sri Lanka, and South Africa:{{cite journal| title=Gen. Colaxes Simon, 1900| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| access-date=2019-07-06| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2587| doi=10.24436/2}}
- Colaxes benjamini Wesolowska & Haddad, 2013 – South Africa
- Colaxes horton Benjamin, 2004 – Sri Lanka
- Colaxes nitidiventris Simon, 1900 (type) – India
- Colaxes wanlessi Benjamin, 2004 – Sri Lanka