Pholcomma

Genus of spiders

Pholcomma
Pholcomma nigromaculatum female seen in Okinawa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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)
Species

11, see text

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, 1964Brazil
  • Pholcomma micropunctatum (Mello-Leitão, 1941)Argentina
  • Pholcomma soloa (Marples, 1955)Samoa, Niue
  • Pholcomma tokyoense Ono, 2007Japan
  • 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

  1. ^ 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 30 June 2020.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ 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: A Journal of Entomology. 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. ISSN 0067-0464. JSTOR 42906474. Wikidata Q58677519.
  • Simon, E (1894). Histoire naturelle des araignées (in French). Paris: Roret. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973.
Taxon identifiers
Pholcomma


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