Pholcomma

Pholcomma
Pholcomma gibbum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Theridiidae
Genus:	Pholcomma Thorell, 1869 [1]
Type species
P. gibbum (Westring, 1851)
Species
11, see text
Synonyms [1]
Ancylorrhanis Simon, 1894 [2] Armigera Marples, 1956 [3] [2]

Pholcomma is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1869. ^[4]

Species

As of May 2020 ^[update] it contains eleven species, found worldwide: ^[1]

• 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. amamienseYoshida, 1985 (Transferred to Phycosoma )
• P. japonicumYoshida, 1985 (Transferred to Phycosoma)
• P. nigromaculatumYoshida, 1987 (Transferred to Phycosoma)
• P. yunnanenseSong & Zhu, 1994 (Transferred to Trogloneta )

References

1. 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 30 June 2020.
2. Levi, H. W.; Levi, L. R. (1962). "The genera of the spider family Theridiidae". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 127: 16.
3. Marples, B. J. (1956). "Spiders from the Three Kings Islands". Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum . 4: 329–342. ISSN   0067-0464. JSTOR   42906474. Wikidata   Q58677519.
4. 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.

Further reading

• Levi, H. W. (1957). "The North American spider genera Paratheridula, Tekellina, Pholcomma and Archerius (Araneae: Theridiidae)". Transactions of the American Microscopical Society. 76 (2): 105–115. doi:10.2307/3223625. JSTOR   3223625.
• Levi, H. W.; Levi, L. R. (1962). "The genera of the spider family Theridiidae". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 127: 1–71.
• Levi, H. W. (1964). "The American spiders of the genera Styposis and Pholcomma (Araneae, Theridiidae)". Psyche: A Journal of Entomology. 71: 32–39. doi: 10.1155/1964/91242 .
• Marples, B. J. (1956). "Spiders from the Three Kings Islands". Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum . 4: 329–342. ISSN   0067-0464. JSTOR   42906474. Wikidata   Q58677519.
• Simon, E (1894). Histoire naturelle des araignées (in French). Paris: Roret. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973.