Entypesa is a genus of African mygalomorph spiders in the family Entypesidae. It was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1902. Originally placed with the curtain-web spiders, it was transferred to the funnel-web trapdoor spiders in 1985, then to the Entypesidae in 2020. It is a senior synonym of Pseudohermacha.
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Entypesa is a genus of African mygalomorph spiders in the family Entypesidae. It was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1902. Originally placed with the curtain-web spiders, it was transferred to the funnel-web trapdoor spiders in 1985, then to the Entypesidae in 2020. It is a senior synonym of Pseudohermacha.
==Species== it contains six species, found in South Africa and on Madagascar: 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
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