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{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| taxon = Colaxes
| authority = [[Eugène Simon|Simon]], 1900<ref name=NMBE />
| type_species = ''[[Colaxes nitidiventris|C. nitidiventris]]''
| type_species_authority = Simon, 1900
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = 4, [[#Species|see text]]
}}
'''''Colaxes''''' is a [[genus]] of [[Salticidae|jumping spiders]] that was first described by [[Eugène Simon|Eugène Louis Simon]] in 1900.<ref name=Simo1900>{{cite journal| last=Simon| first=E.| year=1900| title=Descriptions d'arachnides nouveaux de la famille des Attidae| journal=Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique| pages=381–407| volume=44| author-link=Eugène Simon}}</ref>
==Species==
{{as of|2019|06}} it contains four species, found only in [[India]], [[Sri Lanka]], and [[South Africa]]:<ref name=NMBE>{{cite journal| title=Gen. Colaxes Simon, 1900| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| access-date=2019-07-06| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2587| doi=10.24436/2}}</ref>
*''[[Colaxes benjamini]]'' <small>[[Wanda Wesołowska|Wesolowska]] & Haddad, 2013</small> – [[South Africa]]
*''[[Colaxes horton]]'' <small>Benjamin, 2004</small> – [[Sri Lanka]]
*''[[Colaxes nitidiventris]]'' <small>Simon, 1900</small> ([[Type_species|type]]) – [[India]]
*''[[Colaxes wanlessi]]'' <small>Benjamin, 2004</small> – Sri Lanka
==References==
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[[Category:Salticidae]]
[[Category:Salticidae genera]]
[[Category:Spiders of Asia]]
[[Category:Spiders of South Africa]]
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