Herpyllus

{{Short description|Genus of spiders}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2015}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Eastern Parson Spider - Herpyllus ecclesiasticus .jpg | image_caption = ''Herpyllus ecclesiasticus'' | taxon = Herpyllus | authority = [[Nicholas Marcellus Hentz|Hentz]], 1832<ref name=NMBE /> | type_species = ''[[Herpyllus ecclesiasticus|H. ecclesiasticus]]'' | type_species_authority = Hentz, 1832 | subdivision = 33, [[#Species|see text]] | synonyms = * ''Bonna'' [[Octavius Pickard-Cambridge|O. Pickard-Cambridge]], 1898<ref name=Plat1977>{{cite journal|last1=Platnick|first1=N. I.|last2=Shadab|first2=M. U.|year=1977|title=A revision of the spider genera Herpyllus and Scotophaeus (Araneae, Gnaphosidae) in North America|journal=Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History|volume=159|page=4}}</ref> | synonyms_ref = <ref name=NMBE /> }}

'''''Herpyllus''''' is a [[genus]] of [[Gnaphosidae|ground spiders]] first described by [[Nicholas Marcellus Hentz]] in 1832.<ref name=Hent1832>{{cite journal|last=Hentz|first=N. M.|year=1832|title=On North American spiders.|journal=Silliman's Journal of Science and Arts|pages=99–122|volume=21}}</ref>

==Species== {{as of|2019|05}} it contains thirty-three species, including thirteen from North America:<ref name=bugguide>{{cite web|title=Genus Herpyllus|publisher=BugGuide|access-date=2019-06-04|url=https://bugguide.net/node/view/2008}}</ref><ref name=NMBE>{{cite journal|title=Gen. Herpyllus Hentz, 1832|website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0|access-date=2019-06-04|year=2019|publisher=Natural History Museum Bern|url=https://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/938|doi=10.24436/2}}</ref> *''[[Herpyllus australis]]'' (Holmberg, 1881) – Argentina *''[[Herpyllus bensonae]]'' Fox, 1938 – Mexico *''[[Herpyllus brachet]]'' [[Norman I. Platnick|Platnick]] & Shadab, 1977 – Mexico *''[[Herpyllus bubulcus]]'' [[Ralph Vary Chamberlin|Chamberlin]], 1922 – USA, Mexico *''[[Herpyllus calcuttaensis]]'' Biswas, 1984 – India *''[[Herpyllus coahuilanus]]'' [[Willis J. Gertsch|Gertsch]] & Davis, 1940 – Mexico *''[[Herpyllus cockerelli]]'' ([[Nathan Banks|Banks]], 1901) – USA, Mexico *''[[Herpyllus convallis]]'' Chamberlin, 1936 – USA, Mexico *''[[Herpyllus coreanus]]'' Paik, 1992 – Korea *''[[Herpyllus ecclesiasticus]]'' Hentz, 1832 ([[Type species|type]]) – North America *''[[Herpyllus emertoni]]'' Bryant, 1935 – USA *''[[Herpyllus excelsus]]'' Fox, 1938 – USA, Mexico *''[[Herpyllus fidelis]]'' ([[Octavius Pickard-Cambridge|O. Pickard-Cambridge]], 1898) – Mexico *''[[Herpyllus frio]]'' Platnick & Shadab, 1977 – Mexico *''[[Herpyllus gertschi]]'' Platnick & Shadab, 1977 – USA, Mexico *''[[Herpyllus giganteus]]'' Platnick & Shadab, 1977 – Mexico *''[[Herpyllus goaensis]]'' [[B. K. Tikader|Tikader]], 1982 – India *''[[Herpyllus hesperolus]]'' Chamberlin, 1928 – North America *''[[Herpyllus iguala]]'' Platnick & Shadab, 1977 – Mexico *''[[Herpyllus lativulvus]]'' Denis, 1958 – Afghanistan *''[[Herpyllus malkini]]'' Platnick & Shadab, 1977 – Mexico *''[[Herpyllus paropanisadensis]]'' Denis, 1958 – Afghanistan *''[[Herpyllus perditus]]'' (Banks, 1898) – Mexico *''[[Herpyllus perote]]'' Platnick & Shadab, 1977 – Mexico *''[[Herpyllus pictus]]'' ([[Frederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge|F. O. Pickard-Cambridge]], 1899) – Mexico *''[[Herpyllus propinquus]]'' ([[Eugen von Keyserling|Keyserling]], 1887) – North America *''[[Herpyllus proximus]]'' Denis, 1958 – Turkmenistan, Afghanistan *''[[Herpyllus regnans]]'' Chamberlin, 1936 – USA *''[[Herpyllus reservatus]]'' Chamberlin, 1936 – USA, Mexico *''[[Herpyllus scholasticus]]'' Chamberlin, 1922 – USA *''[[Herpyllus schwarzi]]'' (Banks, 1901) – USA *''[[Herpyllus sherus]]'' Platnick & Shadab, 1977 – Mexico *''[[Herpyllus vicinus]]'' Denis, 1958 – Afghanistan

==See also== *''[[Cesonia]]''

==References== {{Reflist}}

[[Category:Gnaphosidae genera]] [[Category:Gnaphosidae]] [[Category:Spiders of Asia]] [[Category:Spiders of North America]]