Cosmophasis thalassina (C. L. Koch 1846)

Cosmophasis thalassina is a species of jumping spider found from Malaysia to Australia.^[1] It was probably dispersed to the gardens and the parks of Queensland by man.^[2]

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.^[3]

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.^[4]

Footnotes

References

• Patoleta, Barbara & Zabka, Marek (1999): Salticidae (Arachnida: Araneae) of Islands off Australia. Journal of Arachnology 27: 229-235. PDF
• Murphy, Frances & Murphy, John (2000): An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. Malaysian Nature Society, Kuala Lumpur.
• 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
• Platnick, Norman I. (2007): The world spider catalog, version 8.0. American Museum of Natural History.

Cosmophasis thalassina adalah spesies laba-laba yang tergolong famili Salticidae. Spesies ini juga merupakan bagian dari genus Cosmophasis dan ordo Araneae. Nama ilmiah dari spesies ini pertama kali diterbitkan pada tahun 1846 oleh C L Koch.

Laba-laba ini biasanya banyak ditemui di Malaysia hingga Australia.

Referensi

• Platnick, Norman I. (2010): The world spider catalog, version 10.5. American Museum of Natural History.

Cosmophasis thalassina is een spinnensoort in de taxonomische indeling van de springspinnen (Salticidae).^[1]

Het dier behoort tot het geslacht Cosmophasis. De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort werd voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1846 door Carl Ludwig Koch.

Cosmophasis thalassina là một loài nhện trong họ Salticidae.^[1]

Loài này thuộc chi Cosmophasis. Cosmophasis thalassina được Carl Ludwig Koch miêu tả năm 1846.

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