{{short description|Species of spider}} {{Speciesbox | image = Cosmophasis micans.jpg | genus = Cosmophasis | species = micans | authority = (L.Koch, 1880) | synonyms = ''Amycus micans'' <small>L. Koch, 1880</small> | synonyms_ref = <ref name=WSC_s28873/> }}
'''Cosmophasis micans''', or the '''peacock jumping spider''', or the '''green ant-mimicking jumping spider''', is a species of jumping spider in the family Salticidae.<ref name=WSC_s28873/><ref>{{Cite web|title=Cosmophasis micans|url=https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/831957-Cosmophasis-micans|access-date=2021-11-19|website=iNaturalist|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2015-01-10|title=Photos Insects Spiders 1|url=https://reforestation.me/insects-spiders-1-photos/|access-date=2021-11-19|website=Reforestation.me|language=en}}</ref> It was first described as ''Amycus micans'' by L. Koch in 1880, and transferred to the genus ''Cosmophasis'' by Eugène Simon in 1901.<ref name=WSC_s28873/> It is indigenous to northern Queensland and the Torres Strait Islands.<ref>{{cite book|author=Mascord, R. |date=1970|title=Australian Spiders in Colour|place=Balgowlah, NSW|publisher= Reed|page=112}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name=WSC_s28873>{{citation |mode=cs1 |title=Taxon details ''Cosmophasis micans'' (L. Koch, 1880) |work=World Spider Catalog |publisher=Natural History Museum Bern |url=https://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/species/28873 |access-date=2021-11-19 }}</ref> }}
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Category:Salticidae Category:Spiders of Australia Category:Spiders described in 1880
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