Entypesa

Entypesa is a genus of African mygalomorph spiders in the family Entypesidae. It was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1902.^[3] Originally placed with the curtain-web spiders,^[3] it was transferred to the funnel-web trapdoor spiders in 1985,^[2] then to the Entypesidae in 2020.^[4] It is a senior synonym of Pseudohermacha.^[2]

Entypesa
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Mygalomorphae
Family:	Entypesidae
Genus:	Entypesa Simon, 1902[1]
Type species
E. nebulosa Simon, 1902
Species
6, see text
Synonyms[1]
Pseudohermacha Strand, 1907[2]

Species

As of June 2020^[update] it contains six species, found in South Africa and on Madagascar:^[1]

• 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