Microhasarius is a spider genus of the jumping spider family, Salticidae.
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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: | Microhasarius Simon, 1902 |
| Type species | |
| Microhasarius pauperculus Simon, 1902
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Description edit
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 edit
M. pauperculus is only known from Java, M. animosus only from Sarawak in northern Borneo.
Name edit
The genus name is combined from "micro" (Greek μικρός for "small") and Hasarius.
Species edit
- Microhasarius animosus Peckham & Peckham, 1907 — Borneo
- Microhasarius pauperculus Simon, 1902 — Java
Footnotes edit
References edit
- 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.