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Hermachola

{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Hermachola

| authority = Hewitt, 1915

| type_species = Hermacha crudeni

| type_species_authority = (Hewitt, 1913)

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision =

{{Specieslist

| Hermachola capensis|(Ausserer, 1871)

| Hermachola crudeni|(Hewitt, 1913)

| Hermachola lyleae|Ríos-Tamayo, Engelbrecht & Goloboff, 2021

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Hermachola is a genus of southern African mygalomorph spiders in the family Entypesidae. It was first described by J. Hewitt in 1915, and it has only been found in South Africa. {{as of|2021|11}} it contains only three species: H. capensis, H. crudeni, and H. lyleae. It was previously considered a junior synonym of Hermacha , but was elevated to genus in 2021. The type species, Hermachola crudeni, was originally described under the name "Hermacha crudeni".

See also

References

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{{cite journal| title=Gen. Hermachola Hewitt, 1915| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| access-date=2021-11-30| year=2021| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/4456| doi=10.24436/2}}

{{cite journal| author-last=Hewitt| author-first=J.| year=1915| journal=Annals of the Natal Museum| title=New South African Arachnida| volume=3| pages=289–327| url=https://wsc.nmbe.ch/reference/1678}}

{{cite journal| author-last=Hewitt| author-first=J.| year=1913| journal=Records of the Albany Museum Grahamstown| title=Descriptions of new species of Arachnida from Cape Colony| volume=2| pages=462–481| url=https://wsc.nmbe.ch/reference/1620}}

{{cite journal| last=Raven| first=R. J.| author-link=Robert_Raven| year=1985| title=The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): cladistics and systematics| journal=Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History| volume=182| pages=1–180}}

{{cite journal| author-last=Ríos-Tamayo| author-first=D.| author2-last=Engelbrecht| author2-first=I.| author3-last=Goloboff| author3-first=P. A.| year=2021| journal=American Museum Novitates| title=A revision of the genus Hermacha Simon, 1889 (Mygalomorphae: Entypesidae), in southern Africa with revalidation of Hermachola Hewitt, 1915, and Brachytheliscus Pocock, 1902| volume=3977| pages=1–80| doi=10.1206/3977.1| url=https://wsc.nmbe.ch/reference/16049}}

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Further reading

  • {{cite journal| author-last=Benoit| author-first=P. L. G.| year=1964| title=Dipluridae de l'Afrique Centrale.-I. (Araneae - Orthognatha). Genres Evagrus Ausserer et Thelechoris Karsch| trans-title=Dipluridae of Central Africa .-- I. (Araneae - Orthognatha). Genres Evagrus Ausserer and Thelechoris Karsch| language=French| journal=Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines| volume=70| pages=417–426| url=https://wsc.nmbe.ch/reference/3616}}
  • {{cite journal| author-last=Ausserer| author-first=A.| year=1871| title=Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Arachniden-Familie der Territelariae Thorell (Mygalidae Autor)| trans-title=Contributions to the knowledge of the arachnid family of the Territelariae Thorell (Mygalidae author)

| language=German| journal=Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien| volume=21| pages=117–224, pl| url=https://wsc.nmbe.ch/reference/411}}

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Category:Entypesidae

Category:Mygalomorphae genera

Category:Spiders of South Africa

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