Pholcomma Explained

Pholcomma is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1869.^[1]

Species

it contains eleven species, found worldwide:^[2]

• Pholcomma antipodianum (Forster, 1955) – New Zealand (Antipodes Is.)
• Pholcomma barnesi Levi, 1957 – USA
• Pholcomma carota Levi, 1957 – USA
• Pholcomma gibbum (Westring, 1851) (type) – Europe, North Africa, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Iran?
• Pholcomma hickmani Forster, 1964 – New Zealand (Campbell Is.)
• Pholcomma hirsutum Emerton, 1882 – USA, Canada
• Pholcomma mantinum Levi, 1964 – Brazil
• Pholcomma micropunctatum (Mello-Leitão, 1941) – Argentina
• Pholcomma soloa (Marples, 1955) – Samoa, Niue
• Pholcomma tokyoense Ono, 2007 – Japan
• Pholcomma turbotti (Marples, 1956) – New Zealand

Formerly included:

• P. amamiense Yoshida, 1985 (Transferred to Phycosoma)
• P. japonicum Yoshida, 1985 (Transferred to Phycosoma)
• P. nigromaculatum Yoshida, 1987 (Transferred to Phycosoma)
• P. yunnanense Song & Zhu, 1994 (Transferred to Trogloneta)

See also

• List of Theridiidae species

Further reading

• Levi. H. W.. 1957. The North American spider genera Paratheridula, Tekellina, Pholcomma and Archerius (Araneae: Theridiidae). Transactions of the American Microscopical Society. 105–115. 76. 2. 10.2307/3223625. 3223625.
• Levi. H. W.. Levi. L. R.. 1962. The genera of the spider family Theridiidae. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 1–71. 127.
• Levi. H. W.. 1964. The American spiders of the genera Styposis and Pholcomma (Araneae, Theridiidae). Psyche: A Journal of Entomology. 32–39. 71. 10.1155/1964/91242. free.
  • Book: Simon, E. 1894. Histoire naturelle des araignées. Roret . Paris. fr. 10.5962/bhl.title.51973.

Notes and References

1. Thorell. T.. 1869. On European spiders. Part I. Review of the European genera of spiders, preceded by some observations on zoological nomenclature. Nova Acta Regiae Societatis Scientiarum Upsaliensis. 1–108. 7. 3. Tamerlan_Thorell.
2. Gen. Pholcomma Thorell, 1869. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 30 June 2020. 2020. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2. Gloor. Daniel. Nentwig. Wolfgang. Blick. Theo. Kropf. Christian.