Microhasarius
# Microhasarius

Microhasarius is a spider genus of the jumping spider family, Salticidae.

## Description

Microhasarius have a yellowish-red carapace with a very thin black margin. 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.

## Distribution

M. pauperculus is only known from Java, M. animosus only from Sarawak in northern Borneo.

## Name

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

## Species

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

## Footnotes

* ↑ Proszynski,1997
* ↑ Murphy & Murphy 2000: 285
