Pholcomma
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2023}}
{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| taxon = Pholcomma
| authority = Thorell, 1869
|image= Pholcomma gibbum 348850069.jpg
|image_caption=Pholcomma gibbum
| type_species = P. gibbum
| type_species_authority = (Westring, 1851)
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = 11, see text
| synonyms =
- Ancylorrhanis Simon, 1894{{cite journal| last1=Levi| first1=H. W.| last2=Levi| first2=L. R.| year=1962| title=The genera of the spider family Theridiidae| journal=Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology| volume=127| page=16}}
- Armigera Marples, 1956
}}
Pholcomma is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1869.{{cite journal| last=Thorell| first=T.| year=1869| title=On European spiders. Part I. Review of the European genera of spiders, preceded by some observations on zoological nomenclature| journal=Nova Acta Regiae Societatis Scientiarum Upsaliensis| pages=1–108| volume=7| issue=3| author-link=Tamerlan Thorell}}
Species
{{as of|2020|05}} it contains eleven species, found worldwide:{{cite journal| title=Gen. Pholcomma Thorell, 1869| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| accessdate=30 June 2020| year=2020| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern|url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3522| doi=10.24436/2| last1=Gloor| first1=Daniel| last2=Nentwig| first2=Wolfgang| last3=Blick| first3=Theo| last4=Kropf| first4=Christian}}
- 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
References
{{Reflist}}
Further reading
- {{cite journal| last=Levi| first=H. W.| year=1957| title=The North American spider genera Paratheridula, Tekellina, Pholcomma and Archerius (Araneae: Theridiidae)| journal=Transactions of the American Microscopical Society| pages=105–115| volume=76| issue=2| doi=10.2307/3223625| jstor=3223625}}
- {{cite journal| last1=Levi| first1=H. W.| last2=Levi| first2=L. R.| year=1962| title=The genera of the spider family Theridiidae| journal=Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology| pages=1–71| volume=127}}
- {{cite journal| last=Levi| first=H. W.| year=1964| title=The American spiders of the genera Styposis and Pholcomma (Araneae, Theridiidae)| journal=Psyche: A Journal of Entomology| pages=32–39| volume=71| doi=10.1155/1964/91242| doi-access=free}}
- {{cite Q|Q58677519}}
- {{cite book| last=Simon| first=E| year=1894| title=Histoire naturelle des araignées| publisher=Roret | location=Paris| language=fr| doi=10.5962/bhl.title.51973}}
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Category:Spiders of New Zealand
Category:Spiders of North America
Category:Spiders of South America
Category:Taxa named by Tamerlan Thorell
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