Biology:Hermacha

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Hermacha
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Entypesidae
Genus: Hermacha
Simon, 1889[1]
Type species
H. caudata
Simon, 1889
Species

17, see text

Synonyms[1]
  • Damarchodes Simon, 1903[2]
  • Hermachola Hewitt, 1915[2]

Hermacha is a genus of mygalomorphae spiders in the family Entypesidae. It was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1889.[3] Originally placed with the Ctenizidae,[3] it was transferred to the funnel-web trapdoor spiders in 1985,[2] then to the Entypesidae in 2020.[4] It is a senior synonym of Damarchodes and Hermachola.[2]

Species

(As of January 2023) it contains 17 species, found in Africa, Colombia, and Brazil :[1]

  • Hermacha anomala (Bertkau, 1880)Brazil
  • Hermacha brevicauda Purcell, 1903 – South Africa
  • Hermacha caudata Simon, 1889 (type) – Mozambique
  • Hermacha conspersa Mello-Leitão, 1941 – Colombia
  • Hermacha evanescens Purcell, 1903 – South Africa
  • Hermacha fossor (Bertkau, 1880) – Brazil
  • Hermacha fulva Tucker, 1917 – South Africa
  • Hermacha itatiayae Mello-Leitão, 1923 – Brazil
  • Hermacha lanata Purcell, 1902 – South Africa
  • Hermacha maraisae Ríos-Tamayo, Engelbrecht & Goloboff, 2021 – South Africa
  • Hermacha mazoena Hewitt, 1915 – South Africa
  • Hermacha montana Ríos-Tamayo, Engelbrecht & Goloboff, 2021 – South Africa
  • Hermacha nigrispinosa Tucker, 1917 – South Africa
  • Hermacha purcelli (Simon, 1903) – South Africa
  • Hermacha septemtrionalis Ríos-Tamayo, Engelbrecht & Goloboff, 2021 – South Africa
  • Hermacha sericea Purcell, 1902 – South Africa
  • Hermacha tuckeri Raven, 1985 – South Africa

Formerly included:

  • H. bicolor (Pocock, 1897) (Transferred to Brachytheliscus)
  • H. capensis (Ausserer, 1871) (Transferred to Hermachola)
  • H. crudeni Hewitt, 1913 (Transferred to Hermachola)
  • H. grahami (Hewitt, 1915) (Transferred to Hermachola)
  • H. iricolor Mello-Leitão, 1923 (Transferred to Rachias)
  • H. leporina Simon, 1891 (Transferred to Stenoterommata)
  • H. curvipes Purcell, 1902 (Transferred to Ekapa)
  • H. nigra Tucker, 1917 (Transferred to Ekapa)'

Nomen dubium

  • H. nigromarginata Strand, 1907

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2020). Gen. Hermacha Simon, 1889. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2011. Retrieved 2020-07-11. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Raven, R. J. (1985). "The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 182: 85. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 Simon, E. (1889). "Descriptions d'espèces africaines nouvelles de la famille des Aviculariidae". Actes de la Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux 42: 405–415. 
  4. Opatova, V. (2020). "Phylogenetic systematics and evolution of the spider infraorder Mygalomorphae using genomic scale data". Systematic Biology 69 (4): 701–702. doi:10.1093/sysbio/syz064. PMID 31841157. 

Further reading

Wikidata ☰ Q3021983 entry