Taxon details

Family: Entypesidae / Genus: Ekapa

Ekapa curvipes (Purcell, 1902)

  • Rank: Species (Genus type)
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2023-01-27
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001130]
  • Distribution: South Africa
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Taxonomic references
Hermacha curvipes Purcell, 1902b: 377 (Dm).
Hermacha curvipes Tucker, 1917: 106 (Df).
Hermacha nigra Tucker, 1917: 110 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:043902].
Damarchodes purcelli Bonnet, 1956: 1373 (regarded Hermacha nigra as S, but none of the cited comments of Hewitt, 1919b: 109 justify that conclusion, see also Tucker, 1917: 112).
Hermacha curvipes Ríos-Tamayo, Engelbrecht & Goloboff, 2021: 74, f. 45A-D (m, incertae sedis, differs from currently described genera).
Hermacha nigra Ríos-Tamayo, Engelbrecht & Goloboff, 2021: 75, f. 45E (f, incertae sedis, differs from currently described entypesid genera from South Africa).
Ekapa curvipes Ríos-Tamayo, Lyle & Sole, 2023: 4, f. 1A-G, 2A-E, 3A-F, 4A-I, 5A-E (mf, T from Hermacha, S of Hermacha nigra).
References

Bonnet, P. (1956). Bibliographia araneorum. Analyse méthodique de toute la littérature aranéologique jusqu'en 1939. Tome II. Systématique des araignées (Étude par ordre alphabétique) (2me partie: C-F). Douladoure, Toulouse, pp. 919-1926. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Purcell, W. F. (1902b). 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. 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

Ríos-Tamayo, D., Lyle, R. & Sole, C. L. (2023). Ekapa, a new genus of mygalomorph spiders (Araneae, Entypesidae) from South Africa. African Invertebrates 64(1): 1-12. doi:10.3897/AfrInvertebr.64.97018 download pdf -- Show included taxa

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. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2023-01-27 Species synonymy Ríos-Tamayo, Lyle & Sole, 2023 Ekapa nigrum synonymized with Ekapa curvipes
2023-01-27 New taxonomic reference entry Ríos-Tamayo, Lyle & Sole, 2023 n/a
2023-01-27 Species transferred to new genus Ríos-Tamayo, Lyle & Sole, 2023 Species transferred from Hermacha to Ekapa
2021-09-07 New taxonomic reference entry Ríos-Tamayo, Engelbrecht & Goloboff, 2021 n/a