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{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| taxon = Hermacha
| authority = [[Eugène Simon|Simon]], 1889<ref name=NMBE />
| type_species = ''[[Hermacha caudata|H. caudata]]''
| type_species_authority = Simon, 1889
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = 17, [[#Species|see text]]
| synonyms = *''Damarchodes'' <small>[[Eugène Simon|Simon]], 1903</small><ref name=Rave1985>{{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}}</ref>
*''Hermachola'' <small>Hewitt, 1915</small><ref name=Rave1985 />
| synonyms_ref = <ref name=NMBE />
}}
'''''Hermacha''''' is a [[genus]] of [[mygalomorphae]] spiders in the family [[Entypesidae]]. It was first described by [[Eugène Simon|Eugène Louis Simon]] in 1889.<ref name=Simo1889>{{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}}</ref> Originally placed with the [[Ctenizidae]],<ref name=Simo1889 /> it was transferred to the [[Nemesiidae|funnel-web trapdoor spiders]] in 1985,<ref name=Rave1985 /> then to the [[Entypesidae]] in 2020.<ref name=Opat2020>{{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}}</ref>
It is a [[Synonym_(taxonomy)|senior synonym]] of ''Damarchodes'' and ''Hermachola''.<ref name=Rave1985 />
==Species==
{{as of|2023|01}} it contains 17 species, found in Africa, [[Colombia]], and [[Brazil]]:<ref name=NMBE>{{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}}</ref>
*''[[Hermacha anomala]]'' <small>([[Philipp Bertkau|Bertkau]], 1880)</small> – [[Brazil]]
*''[[Hermacha brevicauda]]'' <small>[[William Frederick Purcell|Purcell]], 1903</small> – South Africa
*''[[Hermacha caudata]]'' <small>Simon, 1889</small> ([[Type_species|type]]) – [[Mozambique]]
*''[[Hermacha conspersa]]'' <small>[[Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão|Mello-Leitão]], 1941</small> – [[Colombia]]
*''[[Hermacha evanescens]]'' <small>Purcell, 1903</small> – South Africa
*''[[Hermacha fossor]]'' <small>(Bertkau, 1880)</small> – Brazil
*''[[Hermacha fulva]]'' <small>Tucker, 1917</small> – South Africa
*''[[Hermacha itatiayae]]'' <small>Mello-Leitão, 1923</small> – Brazil
*''[[Hermacha lanata]]'' <small>Purcell, 1902</small> – South Africa
*''[[Hermacha maraisae]]'' <small>Ríos-Tamayo, Engelbrecht & Goloboff, 2021</small> – South Africa
*''[[Hermacha mazoena]]'' <small>Hewitt, 1915</small> – South Africa
*''[[Hermacha montana]]'' <small>Ríos-Tamayo, Engelbrecht & Goloboff, 2021</small> – South Africa
*''[[Hermacha nigrispinosa]]'' <small>Tucker, 1917</small> – South Africa
*''[[Hermacha purcelli]]'' <small>(Simon, 1903)</small> – South Africa
*''[[Hermacha septemtrionalis]]'' <small>Ríos-Tamayo, Engelbrecht & Goloboff, 2021</small> – South Africa
*''[[Hermacha sericea]]'' <small>Purcell, 1902</small> – South Africa
*''[[Hermacha tuckeri]]'' <small>[[Robert Raven|Raven]], 1985</small> – South Africa
'''Formerly included:'''
*''H. bicolor'' <small>(Pocock, 1897)</small> (Transferred to ''[[Brachytheliscus]])''
*''H. capensis'' <small>(Ausserer, 1871)</small> (Transferred to ''[[Hermachola]])''
*''H. crudeni'' <small>Hewitt, 1913</small> (Transferred to ''[[Hermachola]])''
*''H. grahami'' <small>(Hewitt, 1915)</small> (Transferred to ''[[Hermachola]])''
*''H. iricolor'' <small>Mello-Leitão, 1923</small> (Transferred to ''[[Rachias]])''
*''H. leporina'' <small>Simon, 1891</small> (Transferred to ''[[Stenoterommata]]'')
*''H. curvipes'' <small>Purcell, 1902</small> (Transferred to ''[[Ekapa]])''
*''H. nigra'' <small>Tucker, 1917</small> (Transferred to ''[[Ekapa]])'
'''[[Nomen dubium]]'''
*''H. nigromarginata'' <small>Strand, 1907</small>
==See also==
* [[List of Entypesidae species]]
==References==
{{Reflist}}
==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}}
{{Taxonbar| from=Q3021983}}
[[Category:Mygalomorphae genera]]
[[Category:Entypesidae]]
[[Category:Spiders of Africa]]
[[Category:Spiders of South America]]
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