Pholcus Walckenaer, 1805

Yao, Zhiyuan, Li, Shuqiang & Jäger, Peter, 2014, Four new species of pholcine spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae) from Southeast Asia, Zootaxa 3793 (3), pp. 331-349 : 340

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Genus Pholcus Walckenaer, 1805 View in CoL View at ENA

Pholcus Walckenaer 1805: 80 View in CoL . Type species Aranea phalangioides Fuesslin, 1775 , by monotypy.

Diagnosis. This genus can usually be distinguished from all known genera of the subfamily Pholcinae by the presence of three pairs of apophyses (proximo-lateral, proximo-frontal, and disto-frontal; Figs 34 View FIGURES 34 – 39 , 42 View FIGURES 40 – 43 ) on the male chelicerae, by the presence of a bulbal uncus and appendix ( Figs 30 View FIGURES 30 – 33 , 40 View FIGURES 40 – 43 ), and by the presence of a ‘knob’ on the usually sclerotized epigyne ( Huber 2011a; see also Huber 2011a for a discussion on diagnostic characters in Pholcus , and reversals in some taxa).

References

Fuesslin, J. C. (1775) Verzeichnis der ihm bekannten schweizerischen Insekten, mit einer ausgemahlten Kupfertafel: nebst der Ankundigung eines neuen Inseckten Werkes. Zurich and Winterthur, 62 pp.

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

Walckenaer, C. A. (1805) Tableau des araneides ou caracteres essentiels des tribus, genres, familles et races que renferme le genre Aranea de Linne, avec la designation des especes comprises dans chacune de ces divisions. Paris, 88 pp.

Figures

FIGURES 34 – 39. Pholcus schawalleri spec. nov., holotype male. 34 Chelicerae, frontal view; 35 – 36 Ocular area (35 dorsal view, 36 lateral view); 37 – 39 Habitus (37 dorsal view, 38 ventral view, 39 lateral view). da = distal apophysis, fa = frontal apophysis, pa = proximo-lateral apophysis.

FIGURES 40 – 43. Pholcus schawalleri spec. nov., holotype male. 40 – 41 Pedipalp (40 prolateral view, arrow points at a slender membranous apophysis on procursus; 41 retrolateral view, arrow points at a slender apophysis on pedipalpal femur); 42 – 43 Chelicerae (42 frontal view, 43 lateral view). a = appendix, b = bulb, da = distal apophysis, e = embolus, fa = frontal apophysis, pa = proximo-lateral apophysis, pr = procursus, u = uncus.

FIGURES 30 – 33. Pholcus schawalleri spec. nov., holotype male. 30 – 31 Pedipalp (30 prolateral view, arrow points at a slender membranous apophysis on procursus; 31 retrolateral view, arrow points at a slender apophysis on pedipalpal femur); 32 – 33 Distal part of procursus (32 prolateral view, 33 retrolateral view). a = appendix, b = bulb, e = embolus, pr = procursus, u = uncus.