Erasinus is a genus of the spider family Salticidae (jumping spiders).
| Erasinus | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Salticinae |
| Genus: | Erasinus Simon, 1899 |
| Type species | |
| Erasinus flagellifer Simon, 1899
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| Species | |
All three described species are only known 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.[1]
Erasinus labiatus was transferred to Portia by Fred R. Wanless in 1978.[2]
Name
editErasinos was a river god of Arkadia and Argos in southern Greece.[3]
Species
edit- Erasinus flagellifer Simon, 1899 – Sumatra
- Erasinus flavibarbis Simon, 1902 – Java
- Erasinus gracilis Peckham & Peckham, 1907 – Borneo
Footnotes
edit- ^ Murphy & Murphy 2000: 284
- ^ Platnick 2007
- ^ ERASINUS: River god of Argolis in Greece ; Greek mythology : ERASINOS
References
edit- 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.
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