Colaxes

Colaxes is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1900.^[2]

Colaxes
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Salticidae
Subfamily:	Salticinae
Genus:	Colaxes Simon, 1900[1]
Type species
C. nitidiventris Simon, 1900
Species
4, see text

Species

As of June 2019^[update] it contains four species, found only in India, Sri Lanka, and South Africa:^[1]

• Colaxes benjamini Wesolowska & Haddad, 2013 – South Africa
• Colaxes horton Benjamin, 2004 – Sri Lanka
• Colaxes nitidiventris Simon, 1900 (type) – India
• Colaxes wanlessi Benjamin, 2004 – Sri Lanka