# Herpyllus

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Genus of spiders

Herpyllus Herpyllus ecclesiasticus Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Chelicerata Class: Arachnida Order: Araneae Infraorder: Araneomorphae Family: Gnaphosidae Genus: Herpyllus Hentz, 1832[1] Type species H. ecclesiasticus Hentz, 1832 Species 33, see text Synonyms[1] Bonna O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898[2]

***Herpyllus*** is a [genus](/source/Genus) of [ground spiders](/source/Gnaphosidae) first described by [Nicholas Marcellus Hentz](/source/Nicholas_Marcellus_Hentz) in 1832.[3]

## Species

As of May 2019[\[update\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Herpyllus&action=edit) it contains thirty-three species, including thirteen from North America:[4][1]

- *[Herpyllus australis](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Herpyllus_australis&action=edit&redlink=1)* (Holmberg, 1881) – Argentina

- *[Herpyllus bensonae](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Herpyllus_bensonae&action=edit&redlink=1)* Fox, 1938 – Mexico

- *[Herpyllus brachet](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Herpyllus_brachet&action=edit&redlink=1)* [Platnick](/source/Norman_I._Platnick) & Shadab, 1977 – Mexico

- *[Herpyllus bubulcus](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Herpyllus_bubulcus&action=edit&redlink=1)* [Chamberlin](/source/Ralph_Vary_Chamberlin), 1922 – USA, Mexico

- *[Herpyllus calcuttaensis](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Herpyllus_calcuttaensis&action=edit&redlink=1)* Biswas, 1984 – India

- *[Herpyllus coahuilanus](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Herpyllus_coahuilanus&action=edit&redlink=1)* [Gertsch](/source/Willis_J._Gertsch) & Davis, 1940 – Mexico

- *[Herpyllus cockerelli](/source/Herpyllus_cockerelli)* ([Banks](/source/Nathan_Banks), 1901) – USA, Mexico

- *[Herpyllus convallis](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Herpyllus_convallis&action=edit&redlink=1)* Chamberlin, 1936 – USA, Mexico

- *[Herpyllus coreanus](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Herpyllus_coreanus&action=edit&redlink=1)* Paik, 1992 – Korea

- *[Herpyllus ecclesiasticus](/source/Herpyllus_ecclesiasticus)* Hentz, 1832 ([type](/source/Type_species)) – North America

- *[Herpyllus emertoni](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Herpyllus_emertoni&action=edit&redlink=1)* Bryant, 1935 – USA

- *[Herpyllus excelsus](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Herpyllus_excelsus&action=edit&redlink=1)* Fox, 1938 – USA, Mexico

- *[Herpyllus fidelis](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Herpyllus_fidelis&action=edit&redlink=1)* ([O. Pickard-Cambridge](/source/Octavius_Pickard-Cambridge), 1898) – Mexico

- *[Herpyllus frio](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Herpyllus_frio&action=edit&redlink=1)* Platnick & Shadab, 1977 – Mexico

- *[Herpyllus gertschi](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Herpyllus_gertschi&action=edit&redlink=1)* Platnick & Shadab, 1977 – USA, Mexico

- *[Herpyllus giganteus](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Herpyllus_giganteus&action=edit&redlink=1)* Platnick & Shadab, 1977 – Mexico

- *[Herpyllus goaensis](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Herpyllus_goaensis&action=edit&redlink=1)* [Tikader](/source/B._K._Tikader), 1982 – India

- *[Herpyllus hesperolus](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Herpyllus_hesperolus&action=edit&redlink=1)* Chamberlin, 1928 – North America

- *[Herpyllus iguala](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Herpyllus_iguala&action=edit&redlink=1)* Platnick & Shadab, 1977 – Mexico

- *[Herpyllus lativulvus](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Herpyllus_lativulvus&action=edit&redlink=1)* Denis, 1958 – Afghanistan

- *[Herpyllus malkini](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Herpyllus_malkini&action=edit&redlink=1)* Platnick & Shadab, 1977 – Mexico

- *[Herpyllus paropanisadensis](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Herpyllus_paropanisadensis&action=edit&redlink=1)* Denis, 1958 – Afghanistan

- *[Herpyllus perditus](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Herpyllus_perditus&action=edit&redlink=1)* (Banks, 1898) – Mexico

- *[Herpyllus perote](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Herpyllus_perote&action=edit&redlink=1)* Platnick & Shadab, 1977 – Mexico

- *[Herpyllus pictus](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Herpyllus_pictus&action=edit&redlink=1)* ([F. O. Pickard-Cambridge](/source/Frederick_Octavius_Pickard-Cambridge), 1899) – Mexico

- *[Herpyllus propinquus](/source/Herpyllus_propinquus)* ([Keyserling](/source/Eugen_von_Keyserling), 1887) – North America

- *[Herpyllus proximus](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Herpyllus_proximus&action=edit&redlink=1)* Denis, 1958 – Turkmenistan, Afghanistan

- *[Herpyllus regnans](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Herpyllus_regnans&action=edit&redlink=1)* Chamberlin, 1936 – USA

- *[Herpyllus reservatus](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Herpyllus_reservatus&action=edit&redlink=1)* Chamberlin, 1936 – USA, Mexico

- *[Herpyllus scholasticus](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Herpyllus_scholasticus&action=edit&redlink=1)* Chamberlin, 1922 – USA

- *[Herpyllus schwarzi](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Herpyllus_schwarzi&action=edit&redlink=1)* (Banks, 1901) – USA

- *[Herpyllus sherus](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Herpyllus_sherus&action=edit&redlink=1)* Platnick & Shadab, 1977 – Mexico

- *[Herpyllus vicinus](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Herpyllus_vicinus&action=edit&redlink=1)* Denis, 1958 – Afghanistan

## See also

- *[Cesonia](/source/Cesonia)*

## References

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-NMBE_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-NMBE_1-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-NMBE_1-2) ["Gen. Herpyllus Hentz, 1832"](https://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/938). *World Spider Catalog Version 20.0*. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.24436/2](https://doi.org/10.24436%2F2). Retrieved 4 June 2019.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Plat1977_2-0)** Platnick, N. I.; Shadab, M. U. (1977). "A revision of the spider genera Herpyllus and Scotophaeus (Araneae, Gnaphosidae) in North America". *Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History*. **159**: 4.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Hent1832_3-0)** Hentz, N. M. (1832). "On North American spiders". *Silliman's Journal of Science and Arts*. **21**: 99–122.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-bugguide_4-0)** ["Genus Herpyllus"](https://bugguide.net/node/view/2008). BugGuide. Retrieved 4 June 2019.

Taxon identifiers Herpyllus Wikidata: Q729708 Wikispecies: Herpyllus ADW: Herpyllus BioLib: 1018595 BOLD: 249231 BugGuide: 2008 CoL: 4VY5 EoL: 113731 EPPO: 1HERLG GBIF: 2132809 iNaturalist: 53535 IRMNG: 1361627 ITIS: 185798 NCBI: 1100102 Open Tree of Life: 778040 WSC: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:02432

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