Four new species of pholcine spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae) from Southeast Asia
Author
Yao, Zhiyuan
Author
Li, Shuqiang
Author
Jäger, Peter
text
Zootaxa
2014
3793
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331
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.3793.3.2
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Genus
Pholcus
Walckenaer, 1805
Pholcus
Walckenaer 1805
: 80
.
Type
species
Aranea phalangioides
Fuesslin, 1775
, by monotypy.
Diagnosis.
This genus can usually be distinguished from all known genera of the subfamily Pholcinae by the presence of three pairs of apophyses (proximo-lateral, proximo-frontal, and disto-frontal;
Figs 34
,
42
) on the male chelicerae, by the presence of a bulbal uncus and appendix (
Figs 30
,
40
), and by the presence of a ‘knob’ on the usually sclerotized epigyne (
Huber 2011a
; see also
Huber 2011a
for
a
discussion on diagnostic characters in
Pholcus
, and reversals in some taxa).