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

Erasinus
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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
Species

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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

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Erasinos was a river god of Arkadia and Argos in southern Greece.[3]

Species

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Footnotes

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References

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  • 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.