Leptopholcus Simon, 1893

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 : 9

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2012.29

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6181301

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scientific name

Leptopholcus Simon, 1893
status

 

Leptopholcus Simon, 1893 View in CoL View at ENA

Of the ten species of Leptopholcus currently known from mainland Africa ( Huber 2011), five occur in East Africa ( Fig. 22 View Figs 20 - 23 ).

25. Leptopholcus budongo Huber, 2011 View in CoL . Uganda, Kenya ( Huber 2011).

26. Leptopholcus gracilis Berland, 1920 View in CoL . Kenya ( Berland 1920; Brignoli 1980; Huber 2011), Tanzania, Somalia ( Huber 2011).

27. Leptopholcus gurnahi Huber, 2011 View in CoL . Tanzania ( Huber 2011).

28. Leptopholcus signifer Simon, 1893 View in CoL . Kenya ( Huber 2011).

29. Leptopholcus tipula (Simon, 1907) View in CoL . Uganda ( Huber 2011).

Berland L. 1920. Voyage de Ch. Alluaud et R. Jeannel en Afrique Orientale (1911 - 1912). Araneae (2 e partie). Libraire des Sciences Naturelles, Paris.

Huber B. A. 2011. Revision and cladistic analysis of Pholcus and closely related taxa (Araneae, Pholcidae). Bonner zoologische Monographien 58: 1 - 509.

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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.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Pholcidae