Spermophorides Wunderlich, 1992

Bernhard A. Huber & Charles M. Warui, 2012, East African pholcid spiders: an overview, with descriptions of eight new species (Araneae, Pholcidae), European Journal of Taxonomy 29 (29), pp. 1-44 : 16

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Spermophorides is largely restricted to the Canary Islands and the southwestern Mediterranean ( Wunderlich 1992). A single species has been collected in mainland Africa ( Huber 2007) ( Fig. 21 View Figs 20 - 23 ).

87. Spermophorides africana Huber, 2007 View in CoL . Tanzania ( Huber 2007).

References

Huber B. A. 2007. Two new genera of small, six-eyed pholcid spiders from West Africa, and first record of Spermophorides for mainland Africa (Araneae: Pholcidae). Zootaxa 1635: 23 - 43.

Wunderlich J. 1992. Die Spinnen-Fauna der Makaronesischen Inseln. Taxonomie, Okologie, Biogeographie und Evolution. Beitrage zur Araneologie 1: 1 - 619.

Figures

Figs 20 - 23. Known distributions of the genera Modisimus, Pehrforsskalia, Micropholcus, Spermophorides, Leptopholcus, and Pholcus in East Africa. For detailed maps of Leptopholcus and Pholcus, see Huber (2011). Squares: unidentified / undescribed specimens.