Hermacha
{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| taxon = Hermacha
| authority = Simon, 1889
| type_species = H. caudata
| type_species_authority = Simon, 1889
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = 17, see text
| synonyms = *Damarchodes Simon, 1903{{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=85}}
}}
Hermacha is a genus of mygalomorphae spiders in the family Entypesidae. It was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1889.{{cite journal| last=Simon| first=E.| year=1889| title=Descriptions d'espèces africaines nouvelles de la famille des Aviculariidae| journal=Actes de la Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux| pages=405–415| volume=42| author-link=Eugène Simon}} Originally placed with the Ctenizidae, 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| pages=701–702| doi=10.1093/sysbio/syz064| pmid=31841157| doi-access=free| url=https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2019/05/02/531756.full.pdf}}
It is a senior synonym of Damarchodes and Hermachola.
Species
{{as of|2023|01}} it contains 17 species, found in Africa, Colombia, and Brazil:{{cite journal| title=Gen. Hermacha Simon, 1889| 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/2011| doi=10.24436/2| last1=Gloor| first1=Daniel| last2=Nentwig| first2=Wolfgang| last3=Blick| first3=Theo| last4=Kropf| first4=Christian}}
- 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)
- H. nigromarginata Strand, 1907
See also
References
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Further reading
- {{cite journal| last=Tucker| first=R. W. E.| year=1917| title=On some South African Aviculariidae (Arachnida). Families Migidae, Ctenizidae, Diplotheleae and Dipluridae| journal=Annals of the South African Museum| pages=79–138| volume=17}}
- {{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| pages=1–180| volume=182}}
- {{cite journal| last=Purcell| first=W. F.| year=1902| title=New South African trap-door spiders of the family Ctenizidae in the collection of the South African Museum| journal=Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society| pages=348–382| volume=11| doi=10.1080/21560382.1900.9525972| url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/partpdf/175449}}
- {{cite journal| last=Hewitt| first=J.| year=1915| title=New South African Arachnida| journal=Annals of the Natal Museum| pages=289–327| volume=3| doi=10.5962/bhl.part.7433| url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/7433}}
- {{cite journal| last=Purcell| first=W. F.| year=1903| title=New South African spiders of the families Migidae, Ctenizidae, Barychelidae Dipluridae, and Lycosidae| journal=Annals of the South African Museum| pages=69–142| volume=3}}
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Category:Spiders of South America
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