Micropholcus

Micropholcus is a genus of cellar spiders that was first described by Christa Laetitia Deeleman-Reinhold & J. D. Prinsen in 1987.[3]

Micropholcus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Pholcidae
Genus: Micropholcus
Deeleman-Reinhold & Prinsen, 1987[1]
Type species
M. fauroti
(Simon, 1887)
Species

16, see text

Synonyms[1]
  • Mariguitaia González-Sponga, 2004[2]

Species

It accepted a number of transfers from genus Leptopholcus in 2014, increasing its number of species to 15. As of June 2019 it contains sixteen species, with a pantropical distribution:[1]

  • Micropholcus agadir (Huber, 2011) – Morocco
  • Micropholcus baoruco (Huber, 2006) – Hispaniola
  • Micropholcus brazlandia (Huber, Pérez & Baptista, 2005) – Brazil
  • Micropholcus crato Huber, Carvalho & Benjamin, 2014 – Brazil
  • Micropholcus dalei (Petrunkevitch, 1929) – Puerto Rico, Virgin Is.
  • Micropholcus delicatulus (Franganillo, 1930) – Cuba
  • Micropholcus evaluna (Huber, Pérez & Baptista, 2005) – Venezuela
  • Micropholcus fauroti (Simon, 1887) (type) – Temperate Asia. Introduced to both Americas, Belgium, Germany, Africa, Sri Lanka, Southeast Asia, Australia, Pacific Is.
  • Micropholcus hispaniola (Huber, 2000) – Hispaniola
  • Micropholcus jacominae Deeleman-Reinhold & van Harten, 2001 – Yemen
  • Micropholcus jamaica (Huber, 2000) – Jamaica
  • Micropholcus pataxo (Huber, Pérez & Baptista, 2005) – Brazil
  • Micropholcus piaui Huber, Carvalho & Benjamin, 2014 – Brazil
  • Micropholcus piracuruca Huber, Carvalho & Benjamin, 2014 – Brazil
  • Micropholcus toma (Huber, 2006) – Hispaniola
  • Micropholcus ubajara Huber, Carvalho & Benjamin, 2014 – Brazil

See also

References
  1. Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Micropholcus Deeleman-Reinhold & Prinsen, 1987". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-04.
  2. Huber, B. A. (2009). "Four new generic and 14 new specific synonymies in Pholcidae, and transfer of Pholcoides Roewer to Filistatidae (Araneae)". Zootaxa. 1970: 66. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1970.1.3.
  3. Deeleman-Reinhold, C. L.; Prinsen, J. D. (1987). "Micropholcus fauroti (Simon) n. comb., a pantropical, synanthropic spider (Araneae: Pholcidae)". Entomologische Berichten, Amsterdam. 47: 73–77.
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