Hermippus (spider)

{{Short description|Genus of spiders}}

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| taxon = Hermippus

| authority = Simon, 1893

| diversity = 12 species

| type_species = Hermippus loricatus

| type_species_authority = Simon, 1893

| subdivision_ranks = Species

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Hermippus is a genus of ant eating spiders in the family Zodariidae, containing twelve species restricted to Asia and parts of Africa.{{cite web | url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3842/Hermippus | title=Gen. Hermippus Simon, 1893 | publisher=World Spider Catalog | access-date=24 April 2016}} Three new species were discovered in 2014.{{cite journal | title=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. | pmid=25544514 | volume=3893 | issue=1 | journal=Zootaxa | pages=114–26 | last1 = Sankaran | first1 = PM | last2 = Jobi | first2 = MJ | last3 = Joseph | first3 = MM | last4 = Sebastian | first4 = PA | doi=10.11646/zootaxa.3893.1.5| year=2014 }}{{cite journal | title=A revision of the genus Hermippus Simon, 1893 (Araneae: Zodariidae) | journal=Journal of Natural History | volume=20 | pages=7–22 | doi=10.1080/00222938600770021 |year = 1986|last1 = Jocqué|first1 = R.}}{{cite web | url=http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/kochi/2014/12/02/SH-Team-Spots-Four-New-Species-Of-Spiders-In-Western-Ghats/article2551475.ece | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141202082916/http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/kochi/2014/12/02/SH-Team-Spots-Four-New-Species-Of-Spiders-In-Western-Ghats/article2551475.ece | url-status=dead | archive-date=December 2, 2014 | title=SH Team Spots Four New Species Of Spiders In Western Ghats | publisher=New Indian Express | access-date=28 April 2016}}{{cite journal | url=http://agris.fao.org/agris-search/search.do?recordID=BE9000013 | title=A new African species and other new records of Hermippus (Araneae Zodariidae) [1988] | journal=Biologisch Jaarboek - Dodonaea (Belgium) | access-date=28 April 2016| year=1988 | last1=Jocque | first1=R. (Koninklijk Museum Voor Midden-Afrika }}