Entypesa
{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| taxon = Entypesa
| authority = Simon, 1902
| type_species = E. nebulosa
| type_species_authority = Simon, 1902
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = 6, see text
| synonyms =
- Pseudohermacha Strand, 1907{{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=86}}
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Entypesa is a genus of African mygalomorph spiders in the family Entypesidae. It was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1902.{{cite journal| last=Simon| first=E.| year=1902| title=Description d'arachnides nouveaux de la famille des Aviculariides faisant partie de collections du Muséum| journal=Bulletin du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle| pages=595–599| volume=8| author-link=Eugène_Simon}} Originally placed with the curtain-web spiders, it was transferred to the funnel-web trapdoor spiders in 1985, then to the Entypesidae in 2020.{{cite journal| last=Opatova| first=V.| display-authors=etal| year=2020| title=Phylogenetic systematics and evolution of the spider infraorder Mygalomorphae using genomic scale data| journal=Systematic Biology| volume=69| issue=4| page=701–702| doi=10.1093/sysbio/syz064| pmid=31841157| doi-access=free}} It is a senior synonym of Pseudohermacha.
Species
{{as of|2020|06}} it contains six species, found in South Africa and on Madagascar:{{cite journal| title=Gen. Entypesa Simon, 1902| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| accessdate=2020-07-11| year=2020| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2009| doi=10.24436/2}}
- Entypesa andohahela Zonstein, 2018 – Madagascar
- Entypesa enakara Zonstein, 2018 – Madagascar
- Entypesa fisheri Zonstein, 2018 – Madagascar
- Entypesa nebulosa Simon, 1902 (type) – Madagascar
- Entypesa rastellata Zonstein, 2018 – Madagascar
- Entypesa schoutedeni Benoit, 1965 – South Africa
- E. annulipes (Strand, 1907)
See also
References
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Further reading
- {{cite journal| last=Zonstein| first=S.| year=2018| title=Notes on Entypesa (Araneae: Nemesiidae) in the Field Museum of Natural History, with descriptions of four new species from Madagascar| journal=Arachnology| pages=469–479| volume=17| issue=9| doi=10.13156/arac.2018.17.9.469| s2cid=91725526}}
- {{cite journal| last=Nentwig| first=W.| display-authors=etal| year=2020| title=How to deal with destroyed type material? The case of Embrik Strand (Arachnida: Araneae)| journal=Arachnologische Mitteilungen| pages=22–29| volume=59| doi=10.30963/aramit5904| s2cid=216264814| doi-access=free}}
- {{cite journal| last=Raven| first=R. J.| year=1983| title=Notes on some mygalomorph spiders in the Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale (Dipluridae, Hexathelidae, Ctenizidae: Araneae)| journal=Revue Zoologique Africaine| pages=549–562| volume=97}}
- {{cite journal| last=Benoit| first=P. L. G.| year=1965| title=Etudes sur les Dipluridae africains. Le genre Entypesa Simon (Araneae - Orthognatha)| journal=Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines| pages=258–263| volume=71}}
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Category:Spiders of Madagascar
Category:Spiders of South Africa
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