{{Short description|Genus of spiders}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Entypesa | authority = Simon, 1902<ref name=NMBE /> | type_species = ''E. nebulosa'' | type_species_authority = Simon, 1902 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = 6, see text | synonyms = *''Pseudohermacha'' <small>Strand, 1907</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=86}}</ref> | synonyms_ref = <ref name=NMBE /> }}
'''''Entypesa''''' is a genus of African mygalomorph spiders in the family Entypesidae. It was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1902.<ref name=Simo1902>{{cite journal| last=Simon| first=E.| year=1902| title=Description d'arachnides nouveaux de la famille des Aviculariides faisant partie de collections du Muséum| journal=Bulletin du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle| pages=595–599| volume=8| author-link=Eugène_Simon}}</ref> Originally placed with the curtain-web spiders,<ref name=Simo1902 /> it was transferred to the 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| page=701–702| doi=10.1093/sysbio/syz064| pmid=31841157| doi-access=free}}</ref> It is a senior synonym of ''Pseudohermacha''.<ref name=Rave1985 />
==Species== {{as of|2020|06}} it contains six species, found in South Africa and on Madagascar:<ref name=NMBE>{{cite journal| title=Gen. Entypesa Simon, 1902| 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/2009| doi=10.24436/2}}</ref> *''Entypesa andohahela'' <small>Zonstein, 2018</small> – Madagascar *''Entypesa enakara'' <small>Zonstein, 2018</small> – Madagascar *''Entypesa fisheri'' <small>Zonstein, 2018</small> – Madagascar *''Entypesa nebulosa'' <small>Simon, 1902</small> (type) – Madagascar *''Entypesa rastellata'' <small>Zonstein, 2018</small> – Madagascar *''Entypesa schoutedeni'' <small>Benoit, 1965</small> – South Africa
'''Nomen dubium''' *''E. annulipes'' <small>(Strand, 1907)</small>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==Further reading== *{{cite journal| last=Zonstein| first=S.| year=2018| title=Notes on ''Entypesa'' (Araneae: Nemesiidae) in the Field Museum of Natural History, with descriptions of four new species from Madagascar| journal=Arachnology| pages=469–479| volume=17| issue=9| doi=10.13156/arac.2018.17.9.469| s2cid=91725526}} *{{cite journal| last=Nentwig| first=W.| display-authors=etal| year=2020| title=How to deal with destroyed type material? The case of Embrik Strand (Arachnida: Araneae)| journal=Arachnologische Mitteilungen| pages=22–29| volume=59| doi=10.30963/aramit5904| s2cid=216264814| doi-access=free}} *{{cite journal| last=Raven| first=R. J.| year=1983| title=Notes on some mygalomorph spiders in the Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale (Dipluridae, Hexathelidae, Ctenizidae: Araneae)| journal=Revue Zoologique Africaine| pages=549–562| volume=97}} *{{cite journal| last=Benoit| first=P. L. G.| year=1965| title=Etudes sur les Dipluridae africains. Le genre ''Entypesa'' Simon (Araneae - Orthognatha)| journal=Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines| pages=258–263| volume=71}}
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Category:Mygalomorphae genera Category:Entypesidae Category:Spiders of Madagascar Category:Spiders of South Africa Category:Taxa named by Eugène Simon
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