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Cosmophasis micans
A striped metallic jumping spider This male is brighter that the female
On planted Ixina in a garden
Thanks Chun for the ID.
Spotted on Nov 28, 2013
Submitted on Dec 2, 2013
8 Comments
Great site Martin !
Here is a good reference for asian jumpng spiders
http://dipode-vie.net/Arachnides/0_Theme...
Thank you Chun, I think this one is correct
Hi Martin, this looks like a
Cosmophasis micans
Here is the link
http://www.arachne.org.au/01_cms/details...
This one seems to be the species seen by Chun http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/172...
The range is described as not extending to Australia but they do look very similar... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmophasis...
Thanks Lauren.
I cannot find a good match anywhere. You would expect this one would be noticed by others easily.
Amazing!
Maybe Thiania
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiania http://www.flickr.com/photos/nickadel/80...
http://salticidae.org/salticid/diagnost/...
but it should not range to Australia.