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
Subfamily:	Salticinae
Genus:	Asaracus C. L. Koch, 1846[1]
Type species
A. megacephalus C. L. Koch, 1846
Species
5, see text

Species

As of June 2019^[update] 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