World Spider Catalog

Entypesidae Bond, Opatova & Hedin, 2020

Family | ACCEPTED

Gen. Ekapa Ríos-Tamayo, Lyle & Sole, 2023 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05929

type Hermacha curvipes Purcell, 1902; gender neuter

In synonymy:

Ekapa nigrum (Tucker, 1917, T from Hermacha) = Ekapa curvipes (Purcell, 1902) (Ríos-Tamayo, Lyle & Sole, 2023: 4)

Ekapa curvipes (Purcell, 1902) | | South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001130 TYPE SPECIES

Hermacha curvipes Purcell, 1902b: 377 (Dm) Original description

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)