Pholcoides

{{Short description|Genus of spiders}}

{{Automatic taxobox

|taxon=Pholcoides

|authority=Roewer, 1960

|type_species=P. afghana

|type_species_authority=Roewer, 1960

|subdivision_ranks=Species

|subdivision={{Specieslist

|P. afghana|Roewer, 1960 – Afghanistan

|P. monticola|(Spassky, 1941) – Tajikistan

|P. seclusa|(O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1885) – India}}

}}

Pholcoides is a genus of Asian crevice weavers that was first described by Carl Friedrich Roewer in 1960.{{cite journal|last=Roewer|first=C. F.|year=1960|title=Solifugen und Opilioniden - Araneae Orthognathae, Haplogynae und Entelegynae (Contribution à l'étude de la faune d'Afghanistan 23).|journal=Göteborgs Kungliga Vetenskaps och Vitterhets Samhälles Handlingar|pages=1–53|volume=8|issue=7}} {{as of|2019|05}}, it contains only three species: P. afghana, P. monticola, and P. seclusa.{{cite journal|title=Gen. Pholcoides Roewer, 1960|website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0|access-date=2019-06-04|year=2019|publisher=Natural History Museum Bern|url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/872|doi=10.24436/2}}

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