Asaracus

Asaracus is a genus of South American jumping spiders that was first described by Carl Ludwig Koch in 1846.[2]

Asaracus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Genus: Asaracus
C. L. Koch, 1846[1]
Type species
A. megacephalus
C. L. Koch, 1846
Species

5, see text

Species

As of June 2019 it contains five species, found only in Venezuela, Guyana, and Brazil:[1]

  • Asaracus megacephalus C. L. Koch, 1846 (type) – Brazil
  • Asaracus modestissimus (Caporiacco, 1947) – Guyana
  • Asaracus rufociliatus (Simon, 1902) – Brazil, Guyana
  • Asaracus semifimbriatus (Simon, 1902) – Brazil
  • Asaracus venezuelicus (Caporiacco, 1955) – Venezuela

References
  1. "Gen. Asaracus C. L. Koch, 1846". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-05.
  2. Koch, C. L. (1846). Die Arachniden. J. L. Lotzbeck, Nürnberg, Dreizehnter Band, pp. , Vierzehnter Band, pp. 1-88. <a title='Log in first' href='/user/login?refId=228'><img alt='download pdf' src='/img/pdficon_small.png' /></a>. pp. 1–234.


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