Hoplopholcus Explained

Hoplopholcus is a genus of cellar spiders that was first described by Władysław Kulczyński in 1908.^[1]

Species

it contains ten species, found only in Asia and Europe:^[2]

• Hoplopholcus asiaeminoris Brignoli, 1978 – Turkey
• Hoplopholcus atik (Huber, 2020) – Turkey
• Hoplopholcus bursa (Huber, 2020) – Turkey
• Hoplopholcus cecconii Kulczyński, 1908 – Turkey, Israel, Lebanon
• Hoplopholcus dim (Huber, 2020) – Turkey, Cyprus
• Hoplopholcus figulus Brignoli, 1971 – Greece
• Hoplopholcus forskali (Thorell, 1871) (type) – Eastern Europe to Turkmenistan
• Hoplopholcus gazipasa (Huber, 2020) – Greece, Turkey
• Hoplopholcus konya (Huber, 2020) – Turkey
• Hoplopholcus labyrinthi (Kulczyński, 1903) – Greece (Crete)
• Hoplopholcus longipes (Spassky, 1934) – Greece, Turkey, Caucasus (Russia, Georgia)
• Hoplopholcus minotaurinus Senglet, 1971 – Greece (Crete)
• Hoplopholcus minous Senglet, 1971 – Greece (Crete)
• Hoplopholcus patrizii (Roewer, 1962) – Turkey
• Hoplopholcus suluin (Huber, 2020) – Turkey
• Hoplopholcus trakyaensis Demircan & Topçu, 2017 – Turkey (European part)

See also

• List of Pholcidae species

Notes and References

1. Kulczyński. W.. 1908. Fragmenta arachnologica. X. Bulletin International de l'Académie des Sciences de Cracovie. 49–86. 1908. Władysław_Kulczyński.
2. Gen. Hoplopholcus Kulczyński, 1908. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-07-04. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.