Entypesa Explained

Entypesa is a genus of African mygalomorph spiders in the family Entypesidae. It was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1902.^[1] Originally placed with the curtain-web spiders, it was transferred to the funnel-web trapdoor spiders in 1985, then to the Entypesidae in 2020.^[2] It is a senior synonym of Pseudohermacha.

Species

it contains six species, found in South Africa and on Madagascar:^[3]

• Entypesa andohahela Zonstein, 2018 – Madagascar
• Entypesa enakara Zonstein, 2018 – Madagascar
• Entypesa fisheri Zonstein, 2018 – Madagascar
• Entypesa nebulosa Simon, 1902 (type) – Madagascar
• Entypesa rastellata Zonstein, 2018 – Madagascar
• Entypesa schoutedeni Benoit, 1965 – South Africa

Nomen dubium

• E. annulipes (Strand, 1907)

See also

• List of Entypesidae species

Further reading

• Zonstein. S.. 2018. Notes on Entypesa (Araneae: Nemesiidae) in the Field Museum of Natural History, with descriptions of four new species from Madagascar. Arachnology. 469–479. 17. 9. 10.13156/arac.2018.17.9.469. 91725526.
• Nentwig. W.. etal. 2020. How to deal with destroyed type material? The case of Embrik Strand (Arachnida: Araneae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen. 22–29. 59. 10.30963/aramit5904. 216264814. free.
• Raven. R. J.. 1983. Notes on some mygalomorph spiders in the Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale (Dipluridae, Hexathelidae, Ctenizidae: Araneae). Revue Zoologique Africaine. 549–562. 97.
• Benoit. P. L. G.. 1965. Etudes sur les Dipluridae africains. Le genre Entypesa Simon (Araneae - Orthognatha). Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines. 258–263. 71.

Notes and References

1. Simon. E.. 1902. Description d'arachnides nouveaux de la famille des Aviculariides faisant partie de collections du Muséum. Bulletin du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle. 595–599. 8. Eugène_Simon.
2. Opatova. V.. etal. 2020. Phylogenetic systematics and evolution of the spider infraorder Mygalomorphae using genomic scale data. Systematic Biology. 69. 4. 701–702. 10.1093/sysbio/syz064. 31841157. free.
3. Gen. Entypesa Simon, 1902. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2020-07-11. 2020. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.