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Genus: Hermacha Simon, 1889 | Family: Entypesidae Bond, Opatova & Hedin, 2020

Hermacha brevicauda Purcell, 1903

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001125

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Described:

Distribution: South Africa

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Type Repository 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) Original description

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. -- 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 -- 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 -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
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