Coryphasia

{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Coryphasia

| authority = Simon, 1902

| type_species = C. albibarbis

| type_species_authority = Simon, 1902

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = 16, see text

| synonyms =

  • Siloca Simon, 1902{{cite journal| last1=Zhang| first1=J. X.| last2=Maddison| first2=W. P.| year=2015| title=Genera of euophryine jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae), with a combined molecular-morphological phylogeny| journal=Zootaxa| volume=3938| issue=1| page=23| doi=10.11646/zootaxa.3938.1.1| pmid=25947489}}

| synonyms_ref =

}}

Coryphasia is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1902.{{cite journal| last=Simon| first=E.| year=1902| title=Description d'arachnides nouveaux de la famille des Salticidae (Attidae) (suite)| journal=Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique| pages=363–406| volume=46| author-link=Eugène Simon}}

Species

{{as of|2019|06}} it contains sixteen species, found in Brazil, Argentina, Jamaica, on the Greater Antilles, and in French Guiana:{{cite journal| title=Gen. Coryphasia Simon, 1902| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| accessdate=2019-07-06| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2597| doi=10.24436/2| last1=Gloor| first1=Daniel| last2=Nentwig| first2=Wolfgang| last3=Blick| first3=Theo| last4=Kropf| first4=Christian}}

References