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Cosmophasis umbratica
Salticidae; Heliophaninae; Cosmophasis; Cosmophasis umbratica Simon, 1903 I find iridescent colours difficult to photograph and my pictures of this kind of spider tend to be "a hit or a miss". I just can't get consistent results. So, identification is next to impossible. In https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/362604-...... there are many beautiful pictures of Cocmophasis spp., but I just can't tell if my spider is one of them, either because of the unreliability of my pictures or, just maybe, my spider is not featured there. I did manage some better shots of similar spiders on two previous spottings - https://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/34... and https://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/17...
Spotted in our backyard, on a very small banana pseudostem offshoot (from the base of an older, dying main pseudostem).
As you can see, I just received a Species ID Suggestion from arne.roysland and changed the scientific name to Cosmophasis umbratica.
To: arne.roysland
Thanks Arne, as mentioned in my "Description", I had already looked at the one you suggest from inaturalist.org and could not quite see it as a match. Now, with your ID suggestion, I have looked again and I am sure you are right because you are always spot-on. My problem is really that my pictures are sometimes just useless when it comes to iridescent colours. Thanks again for your help. John B.
Spotted on Mar 29, 2023
Submitted on Apr 1, 2023
