Erasinus

For the river of Greece, see Erasinus (river).

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

Erasinus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Salticidae
Subfamily:	Salticinae
Genus:	Erasinus Simon, 1899
Type species
Erasinus flagellifer Simon, 1899
Species
See text.

All three described species are only known 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

• Erasinus flagellifer Simon, 1899 – Sumatra
• Erasinus flavibarbis Simon, 1902 – Java
• Erasinus gracilis Peckham & Peckham, 1907 – Borneo