- Erasinus
Taxobox
name = "Erasinus"
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regnum =Animal ia
phylum =Arthropoda
classis =Arachnida
ordo = Araneae
familia =Salticidae
subfamilia =Plexippinae
tribus =Viciriini
genus = "Erasinus"
genus_authority = Simon, 1899
diversity_link = List of Salticidae species#Erasinus
diversity = 3 species
type_species = "Erasinus flagellifer "
type_species_authority = Simon, 1899
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subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = see text"Erasinus" is a
genus of thespider familySalticidae (jumping spider s).All three described species are only know from males. Simon thought that they were close to "
Viciria ". Judging from the shape of the male palp of "E. gracilis", it belongs to the same genus as "Epeus", which was split from "Viciria" in 1984. [Murphy & Murphy 2000: 284]"Erasinus labiatus" was transferred to "Portia" by
Fred R. Wanless in 1978 [Platnick 2007] .Name
Erasinos was a river god of Arkadia and Argos in southernGreece [ [http://www.theoi.com/Potamos/PotamosErasinos.html ERASINUS: River god of Argolis in Greece ; Greek mythology : ERASINOS ] ] .pecies
* "
Erasinus flagellifer " Simon, 1899 —Sumatra
* "Erasinus flavibarbis " Simon, 1902 —Java
* "Erasinus gracilis " Peckham & Peckham, 1907 —Borneo Footnotes
References
* (2000): An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. "Malaysian Nature Society", Kuala Lumpur.
* (2007): [http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/index.html The world spider catalog] , version 8.0. "American Museum of Natural History".
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