Hermacha
Genus of spiders
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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]
| Hermacha | |
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| female H. septemtrionalis | |
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| female H. septemtrionalis | |
Scientific classification  | |
| 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 | |
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17, see text | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
It is a senior synonym of Damarchodes and Hermachola.[2]
Species
As of September 2025[update], this genus includes seventeen species, found in Africa, Colombia, and Brazil:[1]
- Hermacha anomala (Bertkau, 1880) – Brazil
- Hermacha brevicauda Purcell, 1903 – South Africa
- Hermacha caudata Simon, 1889 – Mozambique (type species)
- 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 – Zimbabwe
- 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
