Leptopholcus Simon, 1893

Huber, Bernhard A., 2019, The pholcid spiders of Sri Lanka (Araneae: Pholcidae), Zootaxa 4550 (1), pp. 1-57 : 10

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Leptopholcus Simon, 1893 View in CoL View at ENA

Leptopholcus Simon, 1893: 474 View in CoL . Type species: L. signifer Simon, 1893 ( Angola) View in CoL .

Leptopholcus View in CoL — Brignoli 1980: 651. Huber 2000: 76 View Cited Treatment . Deeleman-Reinhold & van Harten 2001: 201. Huber 2011: 61.

Notes. The genus Leptopholcus View in CoL has been revised recently ( Huber 2011); it has a wide distribution in tropical Africa and Asia ( Huber 2011, Huber et al. 2014a, 2018). All known representatives are leaf-dwellers. Only two species seem to occur in Sri Lanka: the widespread and possibly introduced L. podophthalmus ( Simon, 1893) View in CoL , and the Western Ghats-Sri Lankan endemic L. kandy Huber, 2011 View in CoL . The two species are easily distinguished in the field: L. kandy View in CoL has a long worm-shaped abdomen (as in most species of Leptopholcus View in CoL ), L. podophthalmus View in CoL a relatively short one (compare Figs 42, 45 View FIGURES 42–46 ). Leptopholcus podophthalmus View in CoL is a phylogenetically isolated species ( Eberle et al. 2018) that ranges from Sri Lanka to southern China and Singapore. Leptopholcus kandy View in CoL is most closely related with the Southeast Asian L. borneensis Deeleman-Reinhold, 1986 View in CoL and L. huongson Huber, 2011 View in CoL ( Huber 2011; Eberle et al. 2018).

References

Brignoli, P. M. (1980) Sur le genre Leptopholcus Simon, 1893 (Araneae, Pholcidae). Revue de zoologie africaine, 94, 649 - 655.

Deeleman-Reinhold, C. L. (1986) Leaf-dwelling Pholcidae in Indo-Australian rain forests. In: Eberhard, W. G., Lubin, Y. D. & Robinson, B. C. (Eds.), Proceedings of the Ninth International Congress of Arachnology, Panama 1983. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C., pp. 45 - 48.

Deeleman-Reinhold, C. L. & van Harten, A. (2001) Description of some interesting, new or little known Pholcidae (Araneae) from Yemen. In: Prakash, I. (Ed.), Ecology of Desert Environments. Scientific Publishers, Jodhpur, pp. 193 - 207.

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. (2000) New World pholcid spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae): a revision at generic level. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 254, 1 - 348. https: // doi. org / 10.1206 / 0003 - 0090 (2000) 254 <0001: NWPSAP> 2.0. CO; 2

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., Carvalho, L. S. & Benjamin, S. P. (2014 a) On the New World spiders previously misplaced in Leptopholcus: molecular and morphological analyses and descriptions of four new species (Araneae, Pholcidae). Invertebrate Systematics, 28, 432 - 450. https: // doi. org / 10.1071 / IS 13050

Simon, E. (1893) Histoire Naturelle des Araignees. 1 (2). 2 nd edition. Roret, Paris, 233 pp. [pp. 256 - 488]

Figures

FIGURES 42–46. Leptopholcus, live specimens. 42–44. L. kandy Huber, 2011, male from Ethagala, female from near Belilena Cave, and male from Kitulgala. 45–46. L. podophthalmus (Simon, 1893), male from Kandy, and male from Mapalena Ella sharing web with cecidomyiid flies.