Hermacha

Hermacha
female H. septemtrionalis
female H. septemtrionalis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Mygalomorphae
Family:	Entypesidae
Genus:	Hermacha Simon, 1889
Type species
H. caudata Simon, 1889
Species
17, see text
Synonyms
Damarchodes Simon, 1903

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

As of September 2025^[update], this genus includes seventeen species, found in Africa, Colombia, and Brazil:

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

References

Further reading

• Tucker, R. W. E. (1917). "On some South African Aviculariidae (Arachnida). Families Migidae, Ctenizidae, Diplotheleae and Dipluridae". Annals of the South African Museum. 17: 79–138.
• Raven, R. J. (1985). "The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 182: 1–180.
• Purcell, W. F. (1902). "New South African trap-door spiders of the family Ctenizidae in the collection of the South African Museum". Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society. 11: 348–382. doi:10.1080/21560382.1900.9525972.
• Hewitt, J. (1915). "New South African Arachnida". Annals of the Natal Museum. 3: 289–327. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.7433.
• Purcell, W. F. (1903). "New South African spiders of the families Migidae, Ctenizidae, Barychelidae Dipluridae, and Lycosidae". Annals of the South African Museum. 3: 69–142.

External links

• Citizen science observations for Hermacha at iNaturalist