Pholcomma is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1869.[3]
Species
As of May 2020 it contains eleven species, found worldwide:[1]
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Pholcomma antipodianum (Forster, 1955) – New Zealand (Antipodes Is.)
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Pholcomma barnesi Levi, 1957 – USA
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Pholcomma carota Levi, 1957 – USA
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Pholcomma gibbum (Westring, 1851) (type) – Europe, North Africa, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Iran?
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Pholcomma hickmani Forster, 1964 – New Zealand (Campbell Is.)
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Pholcomma hirsutum Emerton, 1882 – USA, Canada
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Pholcomma mantinum Levi, 1964 – Brazil
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Pholcomma micropunctatum (Mello-Leitão, 1941) – Argentina
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Pholcomma soloa (Marples, 1955) – Samoa, Niue
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Pholcomma tokyoense Ono, 2007 – Japan
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Pholcomma turbotti (Marples, 1956) – New Zealand
Formerly included:
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P. amamiense Yoshida, 1985 (Transferred to Phycosoma)
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P. japonicum Yoshida, 1985 (Transferred to Phycosoma)
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P. nigromaculatum Yoshida, 1987 (Transferred to Phycosoma)
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P. yunnanense Song & Zhu, 1994 (Transferred to Trogloneta)
See also
References
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^ a b c Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2020). "Gen. Pholcomma Thorell, 1869". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-06-30.
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^ a b Levi, H. W.; Levi, L. R. (1962). "The genera of the spider family Theridiidae". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 127: 16.
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^ Thorell, T. (1869). "On European spiders. Part I. Review of the European genera of spiders, preceded by some observations on zoological nomenclature". Nova Acta Regiae Societatis Scientiarum Upsaliensis. 7 (3): 1–108.