Erasinus

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

Erasinus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Arachnida
Order:
Araneae
Family:
Salticidae
Subfamily:
Plexippinae
Genus:
Erasinus

Simon, 1899
Type species
Erasinus flagellifer
Simon, 1899
Species

see text

Diversity
3 species

All three described species are only know 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

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

Species

Footnotes
  1. Murphy & Murphy 2000: 284
  2. Platnick 2007
  3. ERASINUS: River god of Argolis in Greece ; Greek mythology : ERASINOS

References
  • 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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