''Hermosa'' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus com ...

jumping spider Jumping spiders are a group of spiders that constitute the family (biology), family Salticidae. As of 2019, this family contained over 600 described genera and over 6,000 described species, making it the largest family of spiders at 13% of all sp ...

s first described by G. W. Peckham and E. G. Peckham in 1892, and synonymized with ''

Myrmarachne ''Myrmarachne'' is a genus of ant-mimicking jumping spiders that was first described by W. S. MacLeay in 1839. They are commonly called antmimicking spiders, but they are not the only spiders that have this attribute. The name is a combination of ...

'' in 1901. In 2016,

Jerzy Prószyński Jerzy Prószyński (born 1935 in Warsaw) is a Polish arachnologist specializing in systematics of jumping spiders (family Salticidae). He is a graduate of the University of Warsaw, a long-term employee of the Siedlce University of Natural Scienc ...

split up ''Myrmarachne'', creating nine new genera, all with names beginning "''Myrm''". However, it turned out that ''Myrmavola volatilis'', the type species of ''Myrmavola'', was also the type species of ''Hermosa'', and ''Myrmavola'' was made a

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. It is part of the Myrmarachnini

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within the

Salticoida Salticoida is an unranked clade of the jumping spider family Salticidae. It is the larger and more widespread of the two subdivisions of the "typical" jumping spiders (subfamily Salticinae), occurring effectively world-wide. Its sister clade is ...

clade of

Salticinae Salticinae is a subfamily of jumping spiders (family Salticidae). It includes over 90% of the known species of jumping spiders. The subfamily is divided into two unranked clades: Amycoida and Salticoida. Description Members of the subfamily Sa ...

Species

it contains seven species: *'' H. andrewi'' (Wanless, 1978) – Congo, Angola *'' H. brevichelicera'' (Yamasaki & Ahmad, 2013) – Malaysia (Borneo) *'' H. christae'' (Prószyński, 2001) – Malaysia (Borneo) *'' H. galianoae'' (Prószyński, 2001) – Malaysia (Borneo) *'' H. volatilis'' G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1892 ( type) – Madagascar, China, Vietnam *'' H. yamanei'' (Yamasaki, 2012) – Indonesia (Sulawesi) *'' H. yamasakii'' (Prószyński, 2016) – Malaysia (Borneo)

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