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
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
- 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.
- 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.