Cobanus

Cobanus
Male Cobanus extensus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Salticidae
Subfamily:	Salticinae
Genus:	Cobanus F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1900
Type species
Cobanus mandibularis 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. ^[1]

Species

As of February 2022 ^[update] it contains eight species found in Central and South America: ^[2]

• Cobanus bifurcatus Chickering, 1946 – Panama
• Cobanus cambridgei Chickering, 1946 – Panama
• Cobanus chocquibtown Cala-Riquelme, Bustamante & Salgado, 2022 – Colombia
• Cobanus electus Chickering, 1946 – Panama
• Cobanus extensus (G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1896) – Costa Rica, ^[3] Panama
• Cobanus mandibularis (G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1896) – Panama, Colombia
• Cobanus muelona Cala-Riquelme, Bustamante & Salgado, 2022 – Colombia
• Cobanus unicolor F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1900 – Costa Rica, Panama

References

1. Pickard-Cambridge, F. O. (1900), "Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones", Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology
2. Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2022). "Gen. Cobanus F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1900". World Spider Catalog Version 23.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 24 February 2022.
3. Bodner, Gitanjali (2002). "Biodiversity assessment and systematics of neotropical jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae)". The University of Arizona. Retrieved 26 October 2025.

External links

• Media related to Cobanus at Wikimedia Commons