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Hermacha curvipes Purcell 1902

Description

Hermacha curvipes Purcell, 1902

Figure 45A–D

Hermacha curvipes Purcell, 1902: 377; Tucker, 1917: 106.

Purcell (1902) described Hermacha curvipes Purcell, 1902, based on two males from Simonstown, Cape Peninsula. No diagnosis for the species was provided, but the description is relatively detailed. The type male (SAM-ENW-X006011) was examined for this study. The female allotype could not be found. The examination revealed the presence of a recurved fovea, tibia I armed with strong spines but without a megaspine (fig. 45D), a continuous line of cheliceral teeth with several denticles, pedipalp tibia with an apophysis on the posterior side of the ventral excavation (fig. 45A, B), and a distinct copulatory bulb shape (fig. 45C). All these characters differ from Hermacha as well as all other currently described genera.

Notes

Published as part of Ríos-Tamayo, Duniesky, Engelbrecht, Ian & Goloboff, Pablo 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, pp. 1-80 in American Museum Novitates 2021 (3977) on page 74, DOI: 10.1206/3977.1, http://zenodo.org/record/20515358

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Purcell
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Araneae
Family
Entypesidae
Genus
Hermacha
Species
curvipes
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Hermacha curvipes Purcell, 1902 sec. Ríos-Tamayo, Engelbrecht & Goloboff, 2021

References

  • Purcell, W. F. 1902. 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.
  • 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.