{{Short description|Genus of spiders}} {{Automatic taxobox | name = | image = Hermacha septemtrionalis 308934117 557420188.jpg | image_caption = female ''H. septemtrionalis'' | image2 = Hermacha septemtrionalis 308934117 557420463.jpg | image2_caption = female ''H. septemtrionalis'' | taxon = Hermacha | authority = Simon, 1889<ref name=wsc /> | type_species = ''H. caudata'' | type_species_authority = Simon, 1889 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = 17, see text | synonyms = *''Damarchodes'' <small>Simon, 1903</small><ref name=Rave1985 /> | synonyms_ref = <ref name=wsc /> }}
'''''Hermacha''''' is a genus of mygalomorphae spiders in the family Entypesidae. It was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1889.<ref name=Simo1889 /> Originally placed with the Ctenizidae,<ref name=Simo1889 /> it was transferred to the funnel-web trapdoor spiders in 1985,<ref name=Rave1985 /> then to the Entypesidae in 2020.<ref name=Opat2020 />
It is a senior synonym of ''Damarchodes'' and ''Hermachola''.<ref name=Rave1985 />
==Species== {{as of|2025|9}}, this genus includes seventeen species, found in Africa, Colombia, and Brazil:<ref name="wsc" /> {{Div col}} * ''Hermacha anomala'' <small>(Bertkau, 1880)</small> – Brazil * ''Hermacha brevicauda'' <small>Purcell, 1903</small> – South Africa * ''Hermacha caudata'' <small>Simon, 1889</small> – Mozambique (type species) * ''Hermacha conspersa'' <small>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> – Zimbabwe * ''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>Raven, 1985</small> – South Africa {{Div col end}}
'''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>
==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name="wsc">{{cite web | url=https://wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2011 | title=Genus Hermacha | publisher=World Spider Catalog | doi=10.24436/2 | accessdate=28 September 2025}}</ref> <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> <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> <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> }}
==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}}
==External links== * {{inaturalist taxon}}
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Category:Mygalomorphae genera Category:Entypesidae Category:Spiders of Africa Category:Spiders of South America Category:Taxa named by Eugène Simon
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