Pholcomma
| Pholcomma | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Theridiidae |
| Genus: | Pholcomma Thorell, 1869[1] |
| Type species | |
| P. gibbum (Westring, 1851)
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| Species | |
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| Synonyms[1] | |
Pholcomma is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1869.[3]
Species
As of May 2020[update] it contains eleven species, found worldwide:[1]
- Pholcomma antipodianum (Forster, 1955) – New Zealand (Antipodes Is.)
- Pholcomma barnesi Levi, 1957 – USA
- Pholcomma carota Levi, 1957 – USA
- Pholcomma gibbum (Westring, 1851) (type) – Europe, North Africa, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Iran?
- Pholcomma hickmani Forster, 1964 – New Zealand (Campbell Is.)
- Pholcomma hirsutum Emerton, 1882 – USA, Canada
- Pholcomma mantinum Levi, 1964 – Brazil
- Pholcomma micropunctatum (Mello-Leitão, 1941) – Argentina
- Pholcomma soloa (Marples, 1955) – Samoa, Niue
- Pholcomma tokyoense Ono, 2007 – Japan
- Pholcomma turbotti (Marples, 1956) – New Zealand
Formerly included:
- P. amamiense Yoshida, 1985 (Transferred to Phycosoma)
- P. japonicum Yoshida, 1985 (Transferred to Phycosoma)
- P. nigromaculatum Yoshida, 1987 (Transferred to Phycosoma)
- P. yunnanense Song & Zhu, 1994 (Transferred to Trogloneta)
See also
References
- ^ a b c Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2020). "Gen. Pholcomma Thorell, 1869". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-06-30.
- ^ a b Levi, H. W.; Levi, L. R. (1962). "The genera of the spider family Theridiidae". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 127: 16.
- ^ Thorell, T. (1869). "On European spiders. Part I. Review of the European genera of spiders, preceded by some observations on zoological nomenclature". Nova Acta Regiae Societatis Scientiarum Upsaliensis. 7 (3): 1–108.
Further reading
- Levi, H. W. (1957). "The North American spider genera Paratheridula, Tekellina, Pholcomma and Archerius (Araneae: Theridiidae)". Transactions of the American Microscopical Society. 76 (2): 105–115. doi:10.2307/3223625. JSTOR 3223625.
- Levi, H. W.; Levi, L. R. (1962). "The genera of the spider family Theridiidae". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 127: 1–71.
- Levi, H. W. (1964). "The American spiders of the genera Styposis and Pholcomma (Araneae, Theridiidae)". Psyche, Cambridge. 71: 32–39. doi:10.1155/1964/91242.
- Marples, B. J. (1956). "Spiders from the Three Kings Islands". Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum. 4: 329–342.
- Simon, E (1894). Histoire naturelle des araignées (in French). Paris: Roret. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973.
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