The pholcid spiders of Sri Lanka (Araneae: Pholcidae) Author Huber, Bernhard A. text Zootaxa 2019 2019-01-23 4550 1 1 57 journal article 27502 10.11646/zootaxa.4550.1.1 291701d4-652e-440e-adab-f6b0201c0972 1175-5326 2625030 2F7D1EC4-D4ED-4FAE-B227-CF7B79EAE833 Tissahamia Huber, 2018 Pholcus ethagala group: Huber 2011 : 171 . Huber et al. 2016a : 4 . Tissahamia Huber, 2018 in Huber et al. 2018 : 86 . Type species: Pholcus ethagala Huber, 2011 ( Sri Lanka ). Notes . The genus Tissahamia was recently created for eleven species from Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia, all of which had originally been described in Pholcus ( Huber et al. 2018 ) . The genus consists of two sub-groups: a Sri Lankan group and a Southeast Asian group. Several morphological similarities join the two groups ( Huber 2011 ), but ecologically they differ dramatically: all Sri Lankan representatives are leaf-dwellers; all Southeast Asian species are litter-dwellers ( Huber et al. 2016a ). Molecular data were ambiguous as to the monophyly of the genus ( Eberle et al. 2018 ) but both groups were consistently most closely related to two other Southeast Asian genera ( Teranga Huber, 2018 and Panjange Deeleman-Reinhold & Deeleman, 1983 ). The ZMUT has a female specimen from India , Kerala [Ernakulam Angamaly, Desom, 10.13°N , 76.35°E , AA 3636] that reminds of the four Sri Lankan species, suggesting that the Sri Lankan clade of the genus may in fact be a Western Ghats-Sri Lankan endemic group.