Pholcus Walckenaer, 1805

Bernhard A. Huber & Charles M. Warui, 2012, East African pholcid spiders: an overview, with descriptions of eight new species (Araneae, Pholcidae), European Journal of Taxonomy 29 (29), pp. 1-44 : 10

Pholcus Walckenaer, 1805

In East Africa, Pholcus is represented by 17 species from five species groups identified in Huber (2011). Two species groups are endemic to East Africa and restricted to the southeastern part of East Africa ( Fig. 23 ): the lamperti group (8 species) and the taarab group (3 species); each of the other three groups ranges further west or north respectively and is in East Africa restricted to the northwestern part: the chappuisi group (4 species in East Africa), the bamboutos group ( Ph. hoyo Huber, 2011 ), and the circularis group ( Ph. leruthi Lessert, 1935 ).

Figures

Figs 20 - 23. Known distributions of the genera Modisimus, Pehrforsskalia, Micropholcus, Spermophorides, Leptopholcus, and Pholcus in East Africa. For detailed maps of Leptopholcus and Pholcus, see Huber (2011). Squares: unidentified / undescribed specimens.