Hippasa

Hippasa is a genus of spiders in the wolf spider family Lycosidae, first described by Eugène Simon in 1885.^[1]

Hippasa
In funnel web
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Lycosidae
Genus:	Hippasa Simon, 1885
Type species
Hippasa agelenoides (Simon, 1884)
Species
27, see text

H. holmerae in its funnel web

Species

As of January 2023,^[update] it contains twenty-seven species:^[2]

• Hippasa affinis Lessert, 1933 — Angola
• Hippasa agelenoides (Simon, 1884) — Pakistan, India, Myanmar
• Hippasa albopunctata Thorell, 1899 — Cameroon, Ivory Coast
• Hippasa australis Lawrence, 1927 — Southern Africa
• Hippasa bifasciata Buchar, 1997 — Bhutan
• Hippasa brechti Alderweireldt & Jocqué, 2005 — Ivory Coast, Togo
• Hippasa decemnotata Simon, 1910 — West Africa
• Hippasa deserticola Simon, 1889 — Egypt, Middle East, Central Asia
• Hippasa elienae Alderweireldt & Jocqué, 2005 — Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa
• Hippasa flavicoma Caporiacco, 1935 — Karakorum
• Hippasa funerea Lessert, 1925 — Southern Africa
• Hippasa haryanensis Arora & Monga, 1994 — India
• Hippasa himalayensis Gravely, 1924 — India
• Hippasa holmerae Thorell, 1895 — Asia
  • Hippasa holmerae sundaica Thorell, 1895 — Singapore
• Hippasa innesi Simon, 1889 — Egypt
• Hippasa lamtoensis Dresco, 1981 — Ivory Coast
• Hippasa lingxianensis Yin & Wang, 1980 — China, Japan
• Hippasa loundesi Gravely, 1924 — India
• Hippasa lycosina Pocock, 1900 — India, China, Laos
• Hippasa madraspatana Gravely, 1924 — India
• Hippasa marginata Roewer, 1960 — Cameroon
• Hippasa olivacea (Thorell, 1887) — Myanmar, India
• Hippasa pantherina Pocock, 1899 — India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh
• Hippasa partita (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876) — Africa
• Hippasa simoni (Thorell, 1887) — Myanmar
• Hippasa valiveruensis Patel & Reddy, 1993 — India