''Suffasia'' 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

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 eight species restricted to

India India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area; the List of countries by population (United Nations), most populous country since ...

Nepal Nepal, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mainly situated in the Himalayas, but also includes parts of the Indo-Gangetic Plain. It borders the Tibet Autonomous Region of China Ch ...

, and

Sri Lanka Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, also known historically as Ceylon, is an island country in South Asia. It lies in the Indian Ocean, southwest of the Bay of Bengal, separated from the Indian subcontinent, ...

Species

* '' Suffasia ala'' (Simon, 1893) — India * '' Suffasia attidiya'' Benjamin & Jocqué, 2000 — Sri Lanka * '' Suffasia kanchenjunga'' Ono, 2006 — Nepal * '' Suffasia keralaensis'' Sudhikumar, Jocqué & Sebastian, 2009 — India * '' Suffasia mahasumana'' Benjamin & Jocqué, 2000 — Sri Lanka * '' Suffasia martensi'' Ono, 2006 — Nepal * '' Suffasia tigrina'' (Simon, 1893) — India * '' Suffasia tumegaster'' Jocqué, 1992 — Nepal

References

Zodariidae Araneomorphae genera Spiders of Asia {{Zodariidae-stub