Uthina Simon, 1893

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Genus Uthina Simon, 1893

Uthina Simon 1893: 476 . Type species Uthina luzonica Simon, 1893 , by original designation.

Diagnosis. This genus can be distinguished from all known pholcid genera by the combination of a cylindrical opisthosoma, the presence of six eyes, two pairs of apophyses (proximo-lateral and disto-frontal) on the male chelicerae ( Figs 48, 55), a ‘knee’ and the absence of dorsal spines on the procursus ( Figs 44 –45, 53– 54), a curved uncus ( Figs 44, 53) and a usually slender bulbal appendix ( Figs 45, 54), as well as by the presence of a ‘knob’ on the barely sclerotized epigyne ( Huber 2011 a).