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Pholcidae  C. L. Koch, 1850 / Quamtana  Huber, 2003   3 species

Quamtana mabusai  Huber, 2003

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:038447

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Description
Additional information

Only figs. by Huber et al. (2015), because Q. mabusai s.str. is not known from Europe.

This species of African origin is not native to Europe (alien species). It had been introduced to Europe at least once and did establish.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: From Germany as Quamtana sp. B resp. Quamtana sp. ZFMK Ar 12707 aff. mabusai
Global distribution (WSC 2024): South Africa, Eswatini
Figures
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male Procursus, retrolateral view
(Huber et al. 2015)

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male Bulbal apophysis, prolateral view
(Huber et al. 2015)

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female Epigyne
(Huber et al. 2015)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Huber et al. 2015)

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.

References

Huber B A, Szymański H, Bennett-West A (2024) Progress or burden? Formal description of every apparently new species available in collections is neither necessary nor useful. ZooKeys 1214: 77-90 pdf

Huber B, Neumann J, Rehfeldt S, Grabolle A, Reiser N (2015) Back in Europe: Quamtana spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae) in Germany. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 50: 51-56 pdf

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.5. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (31.10.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
03-10-2024 Image insert
02-10-2024 Datasheet update Detail