Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Classis: Arachnida
Ordo: Araneae
Subordo: Opisthothelae
Infraordo: Araneomorphae
Taxon: Neocribellatae
Series: Entelegynae
Superfamilia: Zodaroidea
Familia: Zodariidae
Subfamilia: Storeninae
Genus: Hermippus
Species: H. affinis – H. arcus – H. arjuna – H. cruciatus – H. gavi – H. globosus – H. inflexus – H. loricatus – H. minutus – H. schoutedeni – H. septemguttatus – H. tenebrosus
Name
Hermippus Simon, 1893
Type species: Hermippus loricatus Eugène Louis Simon, 1893
Synonyms
Hermippoides Gravely, 1921 (synonymized by Jocqué, 1986: 8)
Type species: Hermippoides arjuna Gravely, 1921, by original designation and monotypy
References
Primary references
Additional references
Jocqué, R. 1986. A revision of the genus Hermippus Simon, 1893 (Araneae: Zodariidae). Journal of Natural History 20: 7-22. Reference page.
Sankaran, P.M., Malamel, J.J., Mathew, M.J. & Sebastian, P.A. 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): 114–126. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3893.1.5. Paywall. Reference page.
Platnick, N. I. 2008. The World Spider Catalog, version 9.0. American Museum of Natural History. [1]
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]
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
"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. 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.
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