Hermippus (spider)

Hermippus
H. tenebrosus
H. loricatus
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
13 species

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

Species

As of September 2025 ^[update] , this genus includes thirteen species: ^[1]

• 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, Jobi, Joseph & Sebastian, 2014 – India
• Hermippus globosus Sankaran, Jobi, Joseph & Sebastian, 2014 – India
• Hermippus inflexus Sankaran, Jobi, Joseph & Sebastian, 2014 – India
• Hermippus loricatus Simon, 1893 – DR Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia, South Africa (type species)
• Hermippus minutus Jocqué, 1986 – Zimbabwe
• Hermippus schoutedeni Lessert, 1938 – Kenya
• Hermippus septemguttatus Lawrence, 1942 – Mozambique, South Africa
• Hermippus tenebrosus Jocqué, 1986 – South Africa
• Hermippus valentinus Logghe & Jocqué, 2023 – Tanzania

References

1. "Genus Hermippus". World Spider Catalog. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 28 September 2025.
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 (1): 7–22. Bibcode:1986JNatH..20....7J. doi:10.1080/00222938600770021.
4. "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.
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.