Pholcus phungiformes, Oliger, 1983

Lee, Jun-Gi, Lee, Jun-Ho, Choi, Doo-Young, Park, Sun-Jae, Kim, A-Young & Kim, Sam-Kyu, 2021, Five new species of the genus Pholcus Walckenaer (Araneae: Pholcidae) from South Korea, Zootaxa 5052 (1), pp. 61-77 : 62-63

Pholcus phungiformes -group

Diagnosis (modified from Huber, 2011). Male chelicera with frontal apophysis; male palpal tibia with prolateroventral tubercle; male genital bulb without appendix or having pseudoappendix (apophysis arising from uncus, not from basal portion of genital bulb).

Description (modified from Lee et al., 2021). Following somatic characteristics are in common within all species described below. Male. Carapace round, pale yellow, with brown radial marks and marginal band on thoracic area. Eye area slightly elevated, with eight eyes consisted of three groups (AMEs positioned medially and two eye triads laterally), without eye stalk, posteriorly with brown marks and curved hairs. Clypeus as high as chelicera length, with large brown mark, without process. Thoracic furrow absent. Chelicerae longer than wide, brown, with pair of proximo-lateral apophyses, frontal apophyses, and distal apophyses. Sternum longer than wide, shield-like, pale yellow, with brown marks laterally and posteriorly. Opisthosoma cylindrical, pale yellow, without cuticular patterns but cardiac pattern and granular spots visible through cuticle dorsally and laterally. Epiandrus with brown mark. Gonopore whitish, with four epiandrous spigots. Anterior lateral spinnerets with eight spigots. Leg Ⅰ longest, Leg II and IV similar, Leg III shortest. Femora and tibiae yellowish brown, with white bands distally, sub-distally and sub-proximally, with dark brown band sub-distally, tibiae with dark brown band proximally. Patellae, metatarsi and tarsi dark brown, without bands. Tibiae, metatarsi and tarsi with short vertical setae, tibiae and metatarsi Ⅰ, II with long curved hairs. Tibiae with three trichobothria, except tibia Ⅰ (without prolateral trichobothrium). Retrolateral trichobothrium on tibia Ⅰ at 5~6% proximally. Tarsi with many pseudosegments.

Female. Generally similar to male, but without cheliceral apophysis and with slightly shorter legs.