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
see text

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

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

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

Footnotes

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

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.