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Cosmophasis

{{Short description|Genus of spiders}}

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| image_caption = Cosmophasis baehrae

| taxon = Cosmophasis

| authority = Simon, 1901

| type_species = Plexippus thalassinus{{Cite book |last=Simon |first=Eugène |url=http://archive.org/details/histoirenaturell02simo |title=Histoire naturelle des araignées. |date=1892 |publisher=Paris : Roret |others=Smithsonian Libraries|pages=553–554|oclc =1046005797|doi = 10.5962/bhl.title.51973|lccn = agr08000137 }}

| type_species_authority = C. L. Koch

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Cosmophasis is a genus of spiders in the family Salticidae (jumping spiders). They are predominantly Southeast Asian,{{Cite journal |last1=Donovan |first1=B. |last2=Hill |first2=D. E. |date=30 April 2017 |title=Report of Cosmophasis feeding on butterfly eggs in Queensland (Araneae: Salticidae: Chrysillini) |url=http://archive.org/details/peckhamia-149.1-001-003 |journal=Peckhamia |language=English |volume=149 |issue=1 |issn=2161-8526 |eissn=1944-8120}} while some species occur in Africa and Australia. Although most species more or less mimic ants, there are also colorful speciesJerzy Proszynski: [http://salticidae.org/salticid/diagnost/cosmopha/cosmopha.htm Cosmophasis] that follow a different strategy.

C. bitaeniata uses chemical mimicry to be accepted by the aggressive weaver ant species Oecophylla smaragdina.{{Cite journal|last1=Nelson|first1=Ximena .J|last2=Jackson|first2=Robert R.|last3=Edwards|first3=G.B.|last4=Barrion|first4=Alberto T.|date=2006|title=Living with the enemy: jumping spiders that mimic weaver ants.|url=http://americanarachnology.org/JoA_free/JoA_v33_n3/arac-033-03-0813.pdf|journal=The Journal of Arachnology|volume=33|issue=3 |pages=813–819|doi=10.1636/S04-12.1 |s2cid=52000089 }}

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".{{Cite book|last1=Murphy|first1=John|url=https://www.cabdirect.org/cabdirect/abstract/20013100029|title=An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia|last2=Murphy|first2=Frances|date=1 January 2000|publisher=Malaysian Nature Society|location=Kuala Lumpur|isbn= 978-9839681178}}

Description

Species in this genus are from 3.80 to 8.00 mm long. The cephalothoraxes are pear-shaped(for some males) or rectangular. {{Cite journal|last1=Żabka|first1=Marek|last2=Waldock|first2=Julianne|year=2012|title=Salticidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from oriental, Australian and Pacific Regions. Genus Cosmophasis Simon, 1901 | url = http://arachne.org.au/_dbase_upl/CosmophasisZabkaWaldock.pdf |journal=Annales Zoologici| volume=62| issue=1| pages=115–198|doi = 10.3161/000345412X633694|s2cid= 84374906|issn= 0003-4541|eissn= 1734-1833}}

Taxonomy

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{{As of|2021|November}}, the World Spider Catalog accepted the following species:{{citation |mode=cs1 |title=Gen. Cosmophasis Simon, 1901 |work=World Spider Catalog |publisher=Natural History Museum Bern |url=https://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/specieslist/2599 |access-date=2021-11-20 }}

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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.

Formerly placed in this genus include:

References

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Further reading

  • {{aut|Allan, R.A. & Elgar, M.A.}} (2001): Exploitation of the green tree ant, Oecophylla smaragdina, by the salticid spider Cosmophasis bitaeniata. Australian Journal of Zoology 49: 129–137.
  • {{aut|Allan, R.A., Capon, R.J., Brown, W.V. & Elgar, M.A.}} (2002): Mimicry of host cuticular hydrocarbons by salticid spider Cosmophasis bitaeniata that preys on larvae of tree ants Oecophylla smaragdina. Journal of Chemical Ecology 28: 835–848. {{doi|10.1023/A:1015249012493}}
  • {{aut|Elgar, M.A. & Allan, R.A.}} (2006): Chemical mimicry of the ant Oecophylla smaragdina by the myrmecophilous spider Cosmophasis bitaeniata: Is it colony-specific? Journal of Ethology 24(3): 239-246. {{doi|10.1007/s10164-005-0188-9}}

External links

  • [http://salticidae.org/salticid/diagnost/cosmopha/cosm-ph.htm Photograph of Cosmophasis sp.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060928014825/http://salticidae.org/salticid/diagnost/cosmopha/cosm-ph.htm |date=2006-09-28 }}
  • [http://salticidae.org/salticid/diagnost/cosmopha/micar-ph.htm Photograph of C. micarioides] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060928015058/http://salticidae.org/salticid/diagnost/cosmopha/micar-ph.htm |date=2006-09-28 }}
  • [http://www.washington.edu/burkemuseum/collections/arachnology/index.php Photograph of C. rubra] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090227115932/http://www.washington.edu/burkemuseum/collections/arachnology/index.php |date=2009-02-27 }}

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Category:Salticidae genera

Category:Spiders of Africa

Category:Spiders of Asia

Category:Spiders of Australia

Category:Salticidae