Arasia

Arasia is a genus of South Pacific jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1901.[2] As of June 2019 it contains only three species, found only in Australia and Papua New Guinea: A. eucalypti, A. mollicoma, and A. mullion.[1]

Arasia
Arasia mollicoma
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Arasia
Simon, 1901[1]
Type species
A. mollicoma
(L. Koch, 1880)
Species
  • A. eucalypti Gardzinska, 1996 – New Guinea
  • A. mollicoma (L. Koch, 1880) – Australia (Queensland)
  • A. mullion Zabka, 2002 – Australia (New South Wales)

References

  1. "Gen. Arasia Simon, 1901". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-05.
  2. Simon, E (1901). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Paris: Roret. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973.


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