Cosmophasis thalassina
{{Short description|Species of spider}}
{{Speciesbox
| image = Cosmophasis thalassina 174090594.jpg
| image_caption =
| taxon = Cosmophasis thalassina
| authority = (C. L. Koch, 1846)
| range_map =
| synonyms =
Plexippus thalassinus
Thiania thalassina
Amycus splendidus
Amycus tristriatus
Maevia thalassina
Cosmophasis splendens
}}
Cosmophasis thalassina is a species of jumping spider found from Malaysia to Australia.Platnick 2007 It was probably dispersed to the gardens and the parks of Queensland by man.Patoleta & Zabka 1999: 230
Description
The carapace is covered with greenish-bronze and squamose copper hairs, with some black transverse bands. The opisthosoma is mostly dark, with a white collar at the front that continues beyond halfway along each side. Some transverse white marks can be seen in the frontal part. The dark legs bear white and bronze squamose hairs.Murphy & Murphy 2000: 304
The metallic color has been found to be a combination of a first-order diffraction grating and an underlying broadband multilayer reflector. The grating directs mostly the blue spectral component away from the incoming direction, which, together with the white reflection, results in a yellow reflection from most angles. It feeds on ants.Parker & Hegedus 2003
Footnotes
{{Reflist}}
References
- {{aut|Patoleta, Barbara & Zabka, Marek}} (1999): Salticidae (Arachnida: Araneae) of Islands off Australia. Journal of Arachnology 27: 229-235. [https://web.archive.org/web/20070930201232/http://www.americanarachnology.org/JoA_Congress/JoA_v27_n1/arac_27_01_0229.pdf PDF]
- {{aut|Murphy, Frances & Murphy, John}} (2000): An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. Malaysian Nature Society, Kuala Lumpur.
- {{aut|Parker, Andrew Richard & Hegedus, Zoltan}} (2003): Diffractive optics in spiders. J. Opt. A: Pure Appl. Opt. 5: 111-116. {{doi|10.1088/1464-4258/5/4/364}}
- {{aut|Platnick, Norman I.}} (2007): [http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/index.html The world spider catalog], version 8.0. American Museum of Natural History.
External links
- Salticidae.org: [http://salticidae.org/salticid/diagnost/cosmopha/thalass.htm Diagnostic drawings]
{{Taxonbar|from=Q2197264}}