Microhasarius is a spider genus of the jumping spider family, Salticidae.
Description Microhasarius have a yellowish-red carapace with a very thin black margin.Proszynski,1997 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.Murphy & Murphy 2000: 285
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
References Simon, E. (1902) Description d'arachnides nouveaux de la famille des Salticidae (Attidae) (suite), Ann. Soc. ent. Belg., 46, p. 395 Peckham, G. and Peckham, E. G. (1907) The Attidae of Borneo, Trans. Wiscons. Ac. Sci. Arts Let., '15, p. 608 Proszynski, J. (1997) Genus Microhasarius (Simon, 1902), Salticidae: Diagnostic Drawings Library, www site, accessed 15 June 2007 (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.