Hermacha is a genus of mygalomorphae spiders in the family Entypesidae. It was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1889. Originally placed with the Ctenizidae, it was transferred to the funnel-web trapdoor spiders in 1985, then to the Entypesidae in 2020.
It is a senior synonym of Damarchodes and Hermachola.
Species , this genus includes seventeen species, found in Africa, Colombia, and Brazil:
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)
Nomen dubium H. nigromarginata Strand, 1907
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