Colopsus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Genus: Colopsus
Simon, 1902[1]
Type species
C. cancellatus
Simon, 1902
Species

6, see text

Synonyms[1]

Colopsus is a genus of Asian jumping spiders first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1902.[3] It was synonymized with Evarcha in 1984,[4] but the name was revalidated in 2021.[5] It is a senior synonym of Cheliceroides.[2]

Species

As of March 2022 it contains six species:[1]

  • C. cancellatus Simon, 1902 (type) – Sri Lanka
  • C. cinereus Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2021 – India, Sri Lanka
  • C. ferruginus Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2021 – Sri Lanka
  • C. longipalpis (Żabka, 1985) – China, Vietnam
  • C. magnus Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2021 – Sri Lanka
  • C. tenuesi Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2021 – Sri Lanka

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Gen. Colopsus Simon, 1902". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2022. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2022-03-25.
  2. 1 2 Logunov, D. V. (2021). "Jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) of the Na Hang Nature Reserve, Tuyen Quang Province, Vietnam". Arachnology. 18 (9): 1021–1055. doi:10.13156/arac.2021.18.9.1021. S2CID 243989656.
  3. Simon, E. (1902). "Etudes arachnologiques. 32e Mémoire. LI. Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles de la famille des Salticidae (suite)". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (in French). 71 (1–2): 389–421.
  4. Prószyński, J. (1984). "Atlas rysunków diagnostycznych mniej znanych Salticidae (Araneae)" [Atlas of lesser known diagnostic drawings for Salticidae (Araneae)]. Zeszyty Naukowe Wyższej Szkoły Rolniczo-Pedagogicznej w Siedlcach (in Polish). 2: 1–177.
  5. Kanesharatnam, N.; Benjamin, S. P. (2021). "Phylogenetic relationships and systematics of the jumping spider genus Colopsus with the description of eight new species from Sri Lanka (Araneae: Salticidae)". Journal of Natural History. 54 (43–44): 2763–2814. doi:10.1080/00222933.2020.1869335. S2CID 234811600.

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