COMMON NAMES: a jumping spider

GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION: NATIVE Cook Islands (Rarotonga)

COOK ISLANDS STATUS: Native, Endemic of Cooks, 1-island; Land, lowlands - mountains; habitat unrecorded

KEY FEATURES: CEPHALOTHORAX: Elongate, length about twice width, widest at middle, truncate anteriorly. Brown with two indistinct lengthwise stripes starting behind anterior lateral eyes and running to posterior margin. ABDOMEN: Long and narrow, length more than twice width. Brown dorsally with an orangish patch near posteriors end, behind which is dark brown. Two lateral white streaks, narrow near front end, widening posteriorly, enclosing three dark lateral spots on each side in posterior half. LEGS: First pair large and dark, other three pairs smaller and yellow-brown. EYES: Usual salticid pattern. WEB: None. [This ID of male specimen, is possibly this species - J.Beatty 2/2002]

SIMILAR SPECIES: Cosmophasis but coloration is distinctive.