''Entypesa'' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...

of African

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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

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of ''Pseudohermacha''.

Species

it contains six species, found in South Africa and on Madagascar: *'' Entypesa andohahela'' Zonstein, 2018 –

Madagascar Madagascar (; mg, Madagasikara, ), officially the Republic of Madagascar ( mg, Repoblikan'i Madagasikara, links=no, ; french: République de Madagascar), is an island country in the Indian Ocean, approximately off the coast of East Africa ...

*'' 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 South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the Atlantic Ocean, South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the ...

Nomen dubium *''E. annulipes'' (Strand, 1907)

Species

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