Microhasarius

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Microhasarius
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Hasariinae
Tribe: Microhasariini
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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[edit] 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]

[edit] Distribution

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

[edit] Name

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

[edit] Species

  • Microhasarius animosus Peckham & Peckham, 1907 — Borneo
  • Microhasarius pauperculus Simon, 1902 — Java

[edit] Footnotes

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

[edit] References

  • Simon, E. (1902) Description d'arachnides nouveaux de la famille des Salticidae (Attidae) (suite), Ann. Soc. ent. Belg., 46, p. 395
  • Peckham, G. and Peckham, E. G. (1907) The Attidae of Borneo, Trans. Wiscons. Ac. Sci. Arts Let., '15, p. 608
  • Proszynski, J. (1997) Genus Microhasarius (Simon, 1902), Salticidae: Diagnostic Drawings Library, www site, accessed 15 June 2007
  • Murphy, Frances & Murphy, John (2000): An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. Malaysian Nature Society, Kuala Lumpur.
  • Platnick, Norman I. (2007): The world spider catalog, version 8.0. American Museum of Natural History.