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Pholcidae  C. L. Koch, 1850 / Pholcus  Walckenaer, 1805   15 species

Pholcus ponticus  Thorell, 1875

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:003747

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Description
Male

Palp: femur with elongated bulge. Size and colouration as in female.

Body length male: 5-6 mm
Female

Prosoma 1.4 mm long. Thoracic part of Prosoma with a darker longitudinal double stripe. Sternum and opisthosoma (dorsally) uniformly coloured, without pattern. Eyes and chelicerae similar to P. opilionoides.

Body length female: 5-6 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Romania, Bulgaria to China
Figures
species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Wunderlich 1980a)

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male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Wunderlich 1980a)

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male Bulbus, ventral view
(Wunderlich 1980a)

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male Paracymbium
(Wunderlich 1980a)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Wunderlich 1980a)

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female Epigyne, lateral view
(Wunderlich 1980a)

Distribution List

"No references" does not mean that the species does not occur in this country, but that we have not yet inserted the reference for it. We are working on it.

Azerbaijan   (Otto, 2022) ||| Belarus   (Ivanov, 2013) ||| Bulgaria   (Blagoev et al., 2018) ||| Croatia   (Milosevic, 2002) ||| Romania   (Fedoriak & Moscaliuc, 2013) ||| Russia, Central   (Ponomarev, 2022) ||| Russia, Eastern   (no references) ||| Russia, Southern   (Otto, 2022; Ponomarev, 2022) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Gündüz & Allahverdi, 2018b) ||| Ukraine   (Polchaninova & Prokopenko, 2019) |||
References

Blagoev G, Deltshev C, Lazarov S, Naumova M (2018) The spiders (Araneae) of Bulgaria. Version: August 2018. National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Online at http://www.nmnhs.com/spiders-bulgaria/ (accessed on 10.9.2018) pdf

Fedoriak M, Moscaliuc L A (2013) The catalogue of "Alexandru Roşca" spider collection from the "Grigore Antipa" National Museum of Natural History (Bucharest). II. Mimetidae, Oxyopidae, Pholcidae, Pisauridae, Theridiidae. Travaux du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle “Grigore Antipa” 56: 143-156 pdf

Gündüz G, Allahverdi H (2018b) A new species record of Pholcus Walckenaer, 1805 in Turkey (Araneae: Pholcidae). Serket 16: 27-29 pdf

Ivanov V V (2013) The checklist of Belarusian spiders (Arachnida, Araneae). Zoology and Ecology 4: 293-311 pdf

Milosevic B (2002) Aranea – Popis vrsta – Checklist. Hrvatsko entomološko društvo – Inventar entomofaune Hrvatske [Aranea – List of species – Checklist. Croatian Entomological Society – Inventory of Croatian entomofauna]. pdf

Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.

Polchaninova N, Prokopenko E (2019) An updated checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Left-Bank Ukraine. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 57: 60-64 & App pdf

Ponomarev A V (2022) Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of the southeast of the Russian Plain: catalogue, the fauna specific features. SSC RAS Publishers, Rostov-on-Don, 640 pp. pdf

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.01.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Wunderlich J (1980a) Zur Kenntnis der Gattung Pholcus Walckenaer, 1805 (Arachnida: Araneae: Pholcidae). Senckenbergiana Biologica 60: 219-227 pdf

Updates
24-07-2023 Distribution update Detail
24-05-2018 Distribution update Detail
21-10-2015 Distribution update Detail
26-03-2015 Distribution update Detail
28-04-2014 Distribution update Detail
01-12-2013 Distribution update Detail