Pholcomma

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Pholcomma
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Pholcomma nigromaculatum female seen in Okinawa
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Domain: Eukaryota
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]

Pholcomma is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1869. [3]

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Species

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

Formerly included:

See also

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References

  1. 1 2 3 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. 1 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. 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.

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