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 | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Zodariidae |
| Genus: | Hermippus Simon, 1893 |
| Type species | |
| Hermippus loricatus Simon, 1893
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| Species | |
| Diversity | |
| 12 species | |
Species
edit- 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
edit- ^ "Gen. Hermippus Simon, 1893". World Spider Catalog. Retrieved 24 April 2016.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Jocqué, R. (1986). "A revision of the genus Hermippus Simon, 1893 (Araneae: Zodariidae)". Journal of Natural History. 20: 7–22. doi:10.1080/00222938600770021.
- ^ "SH Team Spots Four New Species Of Spiders In Western Ghats". New Indian Express. Archived from the original on December 2, 2014. Retrieved 28 April 2016.
- ^ 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.