Entychides

{{Short description|Genus of spiders}}

{{Automatic taxobox

|taxon=Entychides

|image=Entychides_aurantiacus_Simon,_1888.jpg

|image_caption=Entychides aurantiacus

|authority=Simon, 1888

|type_species=E. aurantiacus

|type_species_authority=Simon, 1888

|subdivision_ranks=Species

|subdivision=4, see text

}}

Entychides is a genus of mygalomorph trapdoor spiders in the family Euctenizidae, and was first described by Eugène Simon in 1888.{{cite journal|last=Simon|first=E.|year=1888|title=Etudes arachnologiques. 21e Mémoire. XXIX. Descriptions d'espèces et de genres nouveaux de l'Amérique centrale et des Antilles.|journal=Annales de la Société Entomologique de France|pages=203–216|volume=8|issue=6}} Originally placed with the Ctenizidae, it was moved to the wafer trapdoor spiders in 1985,{{cite journal|last=Raven|first=R. J.|year=1985|title=The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics|journal=Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History|volume=182|page=152}} then to the Euctenizidae in 2012.{{cite journal|last=Bond|first=J. E.|display-authors=etal|year=2012|title=A reconsideration of the classification of the spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Arachnida: Araneae) based on three nuclear genes and morphology|journal=PLOS ONE|volume=7|issue=6|page=10|doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0038753|pmid=22723885|pmc=3378619|bibcode=2012PLoSO...738753B|doi-access=free}}