Microhasarius

Microhasarius
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Hasariinae
Genus: Microhasarius
Simon, 1902
Type species
Microhasarius pauperculus
Simon, 1902
Species

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Microhasarius is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders).

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Description

Microhasarius have a yellowish-red carapace with a very thin black margin[1]. The cephalus and each side are black with some long whitish-yellow hairs. The abdomen is pale brown with a few dark spots and a dark, median stripe.[2]

Distribution

M. pauperculus is only known from Java, M. animosus only from Sarawak in northern Borneo.

Name

The genus name is combined from micro (Greek μικρός for "small") and Hasarius.

Species

Footnotes

  1. ^ Proszynski,1997
  2. ^ Murphy & Murphy 2000: 285

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