Physocyclus Simon, 1893

Bernhard A. Huber, Philippe Le Gall & Jacques Francois Mavoungou, 2014, Pholcid spiders from the Lower Guinean region of Central Africa: an overview, with descriptions of seven new species (Araneae, Pholcidae), European Journal of Taxonomy 81, pp. 1-46 : 13

Physocyclus Simon, 1893

Physocyclus is a New World genus. Only the pantropical synanthropic P. globosus (Taczanowski, 1874) occurs in Central Africa ( Fig. 30 ). It seems that this widespread species has not previously been recorded from the area considered here. Only Simon’s (1877) Pholcus claviger (transferred and synonymzed in Huber 2011b) from “Congo” might be a previous record.

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Figs 29 - 30. Known distributions of the debilis species group (sensu Huber 2011 b) of Pholcus Walckenaer, 1805 and of Physocyclus globosus (Taczanowski, 1874) in Central Africa.