Hermippus (spider)

Hermippus is a genus of ant eating spiders in the family Zodariidae, containing twelve species restricted to Asia and parts of Africa.[1] Three new species were discovered in 2014.[2][3][4][5]

Hermippus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Zodariidae
Genus: Hermippus
Simon, 1893
Type species
Hermippus loricatus
Simon, 1893
Species

See text

Diversity
12 species

Species
  • Hermippus affinis Strand, 1906 — Ethiopia, Somalia
  • Hermippus arcus Jocqué, 1989 — Tanzania
  • Hermippus arjuna (Gravely, 1921) — India
  • Hermippus cruciatus Simon, 1905 — India, Sri Lanka
  • Hermippus gavi Sankaran et al., 2014 — India
  • Hermippus globosus Sankaran et al., 2014 — India
  • Hermippus inflexus Sankaran et al., 2014 — India
  • Hermippus loricatus Simon, 1893 — Central, Southern Africa
  • Hermippus minutus Jocqué, 1986 — Zimbabwe
  • Hermippus schoutedeni Lessert, 1938 — Kenya
  • Hermippus septemguttatus Lawrence, 1942 — South Africa
  • Hermippus tenebrosus Jocqué, 1986 — South Africa

References
  1. "Gen. Hermippus Simon, 1893". World Spider Catalog. Retrieved 24 April 2016.
  2. Sankaran, PM; Jobi, MJ; Joseph, MM; Sebastian, PA (2014). "On the genus Hermippus Simon, 1893 (Araneae: Zodariidae, Zodariinae) in India with the description of three new species from the Western Ghats and proposing a new biogeographical hypothesis for the distribution of the genus". Zootaxa. 3893 (1): 114–26. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3893.1.5. PMID 25544514.
  3. Jocqué, R. (1986). "A revision of the genus Hermippus Simon, 1893 (Araneae: Zodariidae)". Journal of Natural History. 20: 7–22. doi:10.1080/00222938600770021.
  4. "SH Team Spots Four New Species Of Spiders In Western Ghats". New Indian Express. Retrieved 28 April 2016.
  5. Jocque, R. (Koninklijk Museum Voor Midden-Afrika (1988). "A new African species and other new records of Hermippus (Araneae Zodariidae) [1988]". Biologisch Jaarboek - Dodonaea (Belgium). Retrieved 28 April 2016.
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