Leptopholcus Simon, 1893

Leptopholcus Simon, 1893: 474 . Type species: L. signifer Simon, 1893 (Angola) .

Leptopholcus — Brignoli 1980: 651. Huber 2000: 76. Deeleman-Reinhold & van Harten 2001: 201. Huber 2011: 61.

Notes. The genus Leptopholcus has been revised recently (Huber 2011); it has a wide distribution in tropical Africa and Asia (Huber 2011, Huber et al. 2014a, 2018). All known representatives are leaf-dwellers. Only two species seem to occur in Sri Lanka: the widespread and possibly introduced L. podophthalmus (Simon, 1893), and the Western Ghats-Sri Lankan endemic L. kandy Huber, 2011 . The two species are easily distinguished in the field: L. kandy has a long worm-shaped abdomen (as in most species of Leptopholcus), L. podophthalmus a relatively short one (compare Figs 42, 45). Leptopholcus podophthalmus is a phylogenetically isolated species (Eberle et al. 2018) that ranges from Sri Lanka to southern China and Singapore. Leptopholcus kandy is most closely related with the Southeast Asian L. borneensis Deeleman-Reinhold, 1986 and L. huongson Huber, 2011 (Huber 2011; Eberle et al. 2018).