title: Colaxes
text: # Colaxes
  
  Colaxes is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1900.
  
  ## Species
  
  As of June 2019 it contains four species, found only in India, Sri Lanka, and South Africa:
  
  * 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
  