''Microhasarius'' is a

spider Spiders ( order Araneae) are air-breathing arthropods that have eight legs, chelicerae with fangs generally able to inject venom, and spinnerets that extrude silk. They are the largest order of arachnids and rank seventh in total species ...

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of the jumping spider family, Salticidae.

Description

''Microhasarius'' have a yellowish-red

carapace A carapace is a Dorsum (biology), dorsal (upper) section of the exoskeleton or shell in a number of animal groups, including arthropods, such as crustaceans and arachnids, as well as vertebrates, such as turtles and tortoises. In turtles and tor ...

with a very thin black margin.Proszynski,1997 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.Murphy & Murphy 2000: 285

Distribution

''M. pauperculus'' is only known from

Java Java (; id, Jawa, ; jv, ꦗꦮ; su, ) is one of the Greater Sunda Islands in Indonesia. It is bordered by the Indian Ocean to the south and the Java Sea to the north. With a population of 151.6 million people, Java is the world's List ...

, ''M. animosus'' only from

Sarawak Sarawak (; ) is a States and federal territories of Malaysia, state of Malaysia. The largest among the 13 states, with an area almost equal to that of Peninsular Malaysia, Sarawak is located in northwest Borneo Island, and is bordered by the M ...

in northern

Borneo Borneo (; id, Kalimantan) is the third-largest island in the world and the largest in Asia. At the geographic centre of Maritime Southeast Asia, in relation to major Indonesian islands, it is located north of Java, west of Sulawesi, and eas ...

Name

The genus name is combined from "micro" ( Greek μικρός for "small") and ''

Hasarius ''Hasarius'' is a spider genus of the family Salticidae (jumping spiders). ''H. neocaledonicus'' was removed from ''Hasarius'' in 2008 and put in its own genus, ''Rhondes''. Species * ''Hasarius adansoni'' (Audouin, 1826) – Cosmopolitan * '' ...

''.

Species

* '' Microhasarius animosus'' Peckham & Peckham, 1907 — Borneo * '' Microhasarius pauperculus'' Simon, 1902 — Java

Footnotes

References

*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 * (2000): An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. ''Malaysian Nature Society'', Kuala Lumpur. * (2007)

version 8.0. ''American Museum of Natural History''. {{Taxonbar, from=Q1033623 Salticidae Spiders of Asia Salticidae genera Taxa named by Eugène Simon