{{Short description|Genus of spiders}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Male Cobanus extensus - 53511108456.jpg | image_caption = Male ''Cobanus extensus'' | taxon = Cobanus | authority = F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1900 | type_species = ''Cobanus mandibularis'' | type_species_authority = G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1896 }} '''''Cobanus''''' is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Frederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1900.<ref name=Pick1900>{{citation| last=Pickard-Cambridge| first=F. O.| year=1900| contribution=Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones| title=Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology| author-link=Frederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge}}</ref>
== Species == {{as of|2022|2}} it contains eight species found in Central and South America:<ref name="NMBE">{{cite journal|last1=Gloor|first1=Daniel|last2=Nentwig|first2=Wolfgang|last3=Blick|first3=Theo|last4=Kropf|first4=Christian|year=2022|title=Gen. Cobanus F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1900|url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2583|publisher=Natural History Museum Bern|doi=10.24436/2|website=World Spider Catalog Version 23.0|accessdate=24 February 2022}}</ref>
* ''Cobanus bifurcatus'' <small>Chickering, 1946</small> – Panama * ''Cobanus cambridgei'' <small>Chickering, 1946</small> – Panama * ''Cobanus chocquibtown'' <small>Cala-Riquelme, Bustamante & Salgado, 2022</small> – Colombia * ''Cobanus electus'' <small>Chickering, 1946</small> – Panama * ''Cobanus extensus'' <small>(G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1896)</small> – Costa Rica,<ref name="Bodner">{{cite web |last1=Bodner |first1=Gitanjali |title=Biodiversity assessment and systematics of neotropical jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) |url=https://repository.arizona.edu/handle/10150/280017 |publisher=The University of Arizona |access-date=26 October 2025 |date=2002}}</ref> Panama * ''Cobanus mandibularis'' <small>(G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1896)</small> – Panama, Colombia * ''Cobanus muelona'' <small>Cala-Riquelme, Bustamante & Salgado, 2022</small> – Colombia * ''Cobanus unicolor'' <small>F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1900</small> – Costa Rica, Panama
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Category:Salticidae Category:Spiders of Central America Category:Spiders of South America Category:Taxa named by Frederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge
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