Tissahamia Huber, 2018

Huber, Bernhard A., 2019, The pholcid spiders of Sri Lanka (Araneae: Pholcidae), Zootaxa 4550 (1), pp. 1-57 : 25

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4550.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3513432
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scientific name	Tissahamia Huber, 2018
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Tissahamia Huber, 2018 View in CoL

Pholcus ethagala View in CoL group: Huber 2011: 171. Huber et al. 2016a: 4 View Cited Treatment .

Tissahamia Huber, 2018 in Huber et al. 2018: 86 View in CoL View Cited Treatment . Type species: Pholcus ethagala Huber, 2011 View in CoL ( Sri Lanka).

Notes. The genus Tissahamia View in CoL was recently created for eleven species from Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia, all of which had originally been described in Pholcus ( Huber et al. 2018) View in CoL . The genus consists of two sub-groups: a Sri Lankan group and a Southeast Asian group. Several morphological similarities join the two groups ( Huber 2011), but ecologically they differ dramatically: all Sri Lankan representatives are leaf-dwellers; all Southeast Asian species are litter-dwellers ( Huber et al. 2016a). Molecular data were ambiguous as to the monophyly of the genus ( Eberle et al. 2018) but both groups were consistently most closely related to two other Southeast Asian genera ( Teranga Huber, 2018 View in CoL and Panjange Deeleman-Reinhold & Deeleman, 1983 View in CoL ).

The ZMUT has a female specimen from India, Kerala [Ernakulam Angamaly, Desom, 10.13°N, 76.35°E, AA 3636] that reminds of the four Sri Lankan species, suggesting that the Sri Lankan clade of the genus may in fact be a Western Ghats-Sri Lankan endemic group.

References

Eberle, J., Dimitrov, D., Valdez-Mondragon, A. & Huber, B. A. (2018) Microhabitat change drives diversification in pholcid spiders. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 18, 141. https: // doi. org / 10.1186 / s 12862 - 018 - 1244 - 8

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

Huber, B. A., Koh, J. K. H., Ghazali, A. R. M., Nuneza, O., Leh Moi Ung, C. & Petcharad, B. (2016 a) New leaf- and litterdwelling species of the genus Pholcus from Southeast Asia (Araneae, Pholcidae). European Journal of Taxonomy, 200, 1 - 45. https: // doi. org / 10.5852 / ejt. 2016.200

Huber, B. A., Eberle, J. & Dimitrov, D. (2018) The phylogeny of pholcid spiders (Araneae, Pholcidae): a critical evaluation of relationships suggested by molecular data. ZooKeys, 789, 51 - 101. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / zookeys. 789.22781