Taxon details

Family: Entypesidae / Genus: Hermacha

Hermacha brevicauda Purcell, 1903

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2021-09-07
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001125]
  • Distribution: South Africa
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Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium; m (ARA-173693/b) of Pionothele capensis (Zonstein, 2020)
  • Paratype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium; 1f of Pionothele capensis (Ríos-Tamayo, Engelbrecht & Goloboff, 2021)
  • Syntype: Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town (SAMC), South Africa; 2m (ENW-B004453, 8898) [N.B.: mentioned as two holotypes, no lectotype designated, therefore counted as syntypes] (Ríos-Tamayo, Engelbrecht & Goloboff, 2021)
Taxonomic references
Hermacha brevicauda Purcell, 1903b: 98 (Dm).
Pionothele capensis Zonstein, 2016a: 36, f. 9-20 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:048499].
Hermacha brevicauda Ríos-Tamayo, Engelbrecht & Goloboff, 2021: 34, f. 2A, 5A-D, 20A-F, 21A-E (m, S of Pionothele capensis).
References

Purcell, W. F. (1903b). New South African spiders of the families Migidae, Ctenizidae, Barychelidae Dipluridae, and Lycosidae. Annals of the South African Museum 3: 69-142, pl. 8. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Zonstein, S. L. (2016a). New data on the spider genus Pionothele (Araneae: Nemesiidae), with description of a new species from South Africa. Israel Journal of Entomology 46: 31-42. doi:10.5281/zenodo.56928 download pdf -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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GBIF.org (2019). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [1 September 2019]

Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2021-09-07 Species synonymy Ríos-Tamayo, Engelbrecht & Goloboff, 2021 Hermacha capensis synonymized with Hermacha brevicauda
2021-09-07 New taxonomic reference entry Ríos-Tamayo, Engelbrecht & Goloboff, 2021 n/a