Arasia

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
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)

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