Hermachola is a genus of southern African mygalomorph spiders in the family Entypesidae. It was first described by J. Hewitt in 1915,[2] and it has only been found in South Africa.[1] As of November 2021[update] it contains only three species: H. capensis, H. crudeni, and H. lyleae.[1] It was previously considered a junior synonym of Hermacha ,[3] but was elevated to genus in 2021.[4] The type species, Hermachola crudeni, was originally described under the name "Hermacha crudeni".[5]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Mygalomorphae |
| Family: | Entypesidae |
| Genus: | Hermachola Hewitt, 1915[1] |
| Type species | |
| Hermacha crudeni (Hewitt, 1913)
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See also edit
References edit
- ^ a b c "Gen. Hermachola Hewitt, 1915". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2021. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2021-11-30.
- ^ Hewitt, J. (1915). "New South African Arachnida". Annals of the Natal Museum. 3: 289–327.
- ^ Raven, R. J. (1985). "The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): cladistics and systematics". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 182: 1–180.
- ^ Ríos-Tamayo, D.; Engelbrecht, I.; Goloboff, P. A. (2021). "A revision of the genus Hermacha Simon, 1889 (Mygalomorphae: Entypesidae), in southern Africa with revalidation of Hermachola Hewitt, 1915, and Brachytheliscus Pocock, 1902". American Museum Novitates. 3977: 1–80. doi:10.1206/3977.1.
- ^ Hewitt, J. (1913). "Descriptions of new species of Arachnida from Cape Colony". Records of the Albany Museum Grahamstown. 2: 462–481.
Further reading edit
- Benoit, P. L. G. (1964). "Dipluridae de l'Afrique Centrale.-I. (Araneae - Orthognatha). Genres Evagrus Ausserer et Thelechoris Karsch" [Dipluridae of Central Africa .-- I. (Araneae - Orthognatha). Genres Evagrus Ausserer and Thelechoris Karsch]. Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines (in French). 70: 417–426.
- Ausserer, A. (1871). "Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Arachniden-Familie der Territelariae Thorell (Mygalidae Autor)" [Contributions to the knowledge of the arachnid family of the Territelariae Thorell (Mygalidae author)]. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien (in German). 21: 117–224, pl.