Jumping Spider

Description:

Wikipedia lists three Cosmophasis species in the Philippines; C. trioipina, C. parangpilota & C. estrellaensis, all documented by Barrion & Litsinger in 1995. I am familiar with C. Parangpilota, but cannot find images of the other two. So, the spider shown here might be C. trioipina, C. estrellaensis or it could be an undocumented spider. Cosmophasis micans L. Koch, 1880 is shown in Wikipedia and looks like a possible match, but it is present only in northern Queensland and the Torres Strait Islands.

Habitat:

This Cosmophasis sp. was spotted in our backyard vegetable plot, on an Eggplant (Solanum melongena L.), commonly called Talong in the Philippines. Plant information from - http://www.stuartxchange.org/Talong.html......