''Erasinus'' is a

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of the

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 d ...

family

Salticidae Jumping spiders are a group of spiders that constitute the family Salticidae. As of 2019, this family contained over 600 described genera and over 6,000 described species, making it the largest family of spiders at 13% of all species. Jumping spi ...

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s). All three described species are only known from males. Simon thought that they were close to ''

Viciria ''Viciria'' is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1877. Description Both sexes reach a length of about 7 to 12 mm. ''Viciria'' is a colorful genus similar to '' Telamonia''. However, the very long, thi ...

''. Judging from the shape of the male palp of ''E. gracilis'', it belongs to the same genus as ''

Epeus ''Epeus'' is a genus of the spider family Salticidae ( jumping spiders). They are often found on broad-leaved plants or shrubs of rain forest, or in gardens of Southeast Asia.Murphy & Murphy 2000: 298f The genus is similar to '' Plexippoides ...

'', which was split from ''Viciria'' in 1984. ''Erasinus labiatus'' was transferred to ''

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'' by

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in 1978.

Name

Erasinos In Greek mythology, Erasinus or Erasinos ( Ancient Greek: Ἐρασῖνος) was a river god of Arkadia and Argos in southern Greece. His daughters Byze, Melite, Maera and Anchiroe. The river itself appears in Pausanias' Description of G ...

was a river god of Arkadia and Argos in southern

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.ERASINUS: River god of Argolis in Greece ; Greek mythology : ERASINOS
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Species

* '' Erasinus flagellifer'' Simon, 1899 – Sumatra * '' Erasinus flavibarbis'' Simon, 1902 –

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* '' Erasinus gracilis''

Peckham & Peckham George Williams Peckham (March 23, 1845 – January 10, 1914) and Elizabeth Maria Gifford Peckham (December 19, 1854 – February 11, 1940) were a married couple who were early American teachers, taxonomists, ethologists, arachno ...

, 1907 –

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Footnotes

References

* (2000): An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. ''Malaysian Nature Society'', Kuala Lumpur. * (2007)
The world spider catalog
version 8.0. ''American Museum of Natural History''. Salticidae Spiders of Asia Salticidae genera {{salticidae-stub