Cosmophasis lami

Exact description may vary, but the species displays sexual dimorphism, with females' coloration being more vibrant. Adult C. lami's carapace is orange-brown,[5] the males having a dark-brown area around the eyes, and coated in orange hairs and the clypeus is orange-brown. The males' abdomen is orange and slender, with a black apex and spinnerets.[2] Females are almost similar, with the only difference being a grayish brown sternum and different abdominal markings.[2] It is similar to C. hortoni, but is smaller, the chelicerae shorter, with a longer embolus of the male palp, which is southeast from the bulb.[6]

Considered the most widely distributed salticid from Cosmophasis, Cosmophasis lami was first seen in Fiji and is currently expanding its range to South East Asia, Seychelles and some islands in the Pacific Ocean.[1] [7][8] In 2013, it was first recorded in Japan by Tatsumi Suguro.[2] Eight years later, it was recorded in Okinawa Island on roadside vegetation in an residential area, probably by artificial introduction.[2]

Cosmophasis lami has no subspecies.

The first recorded specimen of C. lami is a male collected on 3 May 1987 by Joseph Beatty and E.R. Berry from Fiji on shrub foliage in Lami, Fiji and the species was named after it (the location). The name was first published in January 1997 along with Ascyltus similis, Ascyltus rhizophora, Bavia fedor, Bavia sonsorol, Cosmophasis arborea, Cosmophasis muralis, Flacillula nitens, Ligurra opelli, Thorelliola dumicola, and Trite ponapensis.[7]

Cosmophasis lami is called homura-haetori (flame fly-removal) in Japanese,[2] and is not considered a pest.

Cosmophasis lami are peridomestic carnivorous arthropod predators.[9]