''Hermippus'' is a

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

of ant eating

spider Spiders (order (biology), order Araneae) are air-breathing arthropods that have eight limbs, chelicerae with fangs generally able to inject venom, and spinnerets that extrude spider silk, silk. They are the largest order of arachnids and ran ...

s in the family

Zodariidae Ant spiders are members of the family Zodariidae. They are small to medium-sized eight-eyed spiders found in all tropical and subtropical regions of South America, Africa, Madagascar, Australia-New Guinea, New Zealand, Arabia, and the Indian su ...

, containing twelve species restricted to

Asia Asia ( , ) is the largest continent in the world by both land area and population. It covers an area of more than 44 million square kilometres, about 30% of Earth's total land area and 8% of Earth's total surface area. The continent, which ...

and parts of

Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 20% of Earth's land area and 6% of its total surfac ...

. Three new species were discovered in 2014.

Species

* ''

Hermippus affinis Hermippus (; fl. 5th century BC) was the one-eyed Athenian writer of the Old Comedy, who flourished during the Peloponnesian War. Life He was the son of Lysis, and the brother of the comic poet Myrtilus. He was younger than Telecleides and old ...

'' 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

{{Taxonbar, from=Q2026283 Zodariidae Zodariidae genera Spiders of Asia Spiders of Africa