Cosmophasis baehrae
{{short description|Jumping spider from Australia}}
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| image_caption = Female Cairns, Queensland, Australia
| taxon = Cosmophasis baehrae
| authority = Żabka & Waldock, 2012
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Cosmophasis baehrae is a species of jumping spider found in Australia and the Moluccas,{{citation |title=Taxon details Cosmophasis baehrae Żabka & Waldock, 2012 |work=World Spider Catalog |publisher=Natural History Museum Bern |url=https://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/species/28848 |access-date=2024-01-22 }}{{cite web|url=https://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:b5412251-3499-4f68-b334-f505e0b48b2c|title=Atlas of Living Australia|date=2012|publisher=CSIRO|access-date=2018-08-01}} and first described in 2012 by Marek Zabka and Julianne Waldock.{{Cite Q|Q54578272}} It is named after entomologist Barbara Baehr.{{cite book |last1=Whyte |first1=Robert |last2=Anderson |first2=Greg |date=2017 |title=A Field Guide to Spiders of Australia |location=Clayton South Vic. 3169|publisher=CSIRO publishing |page=235 |isbn=9780643107076}}
Description
Cosmophasis baehrae has the inner two forward looking eyes greatly enlarged, typical of the jumping spider family, Salticidae. Diagnostic for this species is a white bar on the carapace just behind the rearmost pair of eyes. The body length of the male is {{cvt|7|mm}} and female {{cvt|5|mm}}.
Distribution
Cosmophasis baehrae has been found along northern coastal regions of Australia in Queensland and Western Australia.{{Cite web |title=Species Cosmophasis baehrae Zabka & Waldock, 2012 |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/Cosmophasis_baehrae |access-date=2024-01-21 |website=Australian Faunal Directory |publisher=Australian Government}} Outside Australia it has been found in the Moluccas in Indonesia.
Gallery
Cosmophasis baehrae 8389.jpg|Female Cosmophasis baehrae front view
Cosmophasis baehrae (male) 6727.jpg| Male distinguished by the vertical white mark between the anterior median eyes