Pholcus phalangioides ( Fuesslin, 1775 )

Zhang, Feng & Zhu, Ming-Sheng, 2009, A review of the genus Pholcus (Araneae: Pholcidae) from China, Zootaxa 2037 (1), pp. 1-114 : 67-69

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.2235.1.2

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scientific name

Pholcus phalangioides ( Fuesslin, 1775 )
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Pholcus phalangioides ( Fuesslin, 1775) View in CoL

( Fig. 36 View FIGURE 36 )

Aranea phalangioides Fuesslin 1775: 9 . Aranea meticulosa Fourcroy 1785: 537 . Pholcus phalangioides Walckenaer 1805: 80 View in CoL , pl. 8, f. 79. Paik 1978: 227, f. 97.1–9. Yaginuma 1986: 29, f. 17.1. Chen &

Zhang 1991: 75, f. 65.1–4. Huber 1998: 595, f. 8Q. Huber 2000: 77, f. 100. Senglet 2001: 55, f. 27, 38. Namkung

2003: 45, f. 5.2a–b. Lee & Kim 2003: 113, f. 70–78.

Diagnosis. This species resembles P. manueli in the shape of the epigynum, both with a short knob-shaped epigynal apophysis ( Figs. 26A View FIGURE 26 and 36A View FIGURE 36 ). It can be distinguished from P.maueli by the shape of the procursus tip ( Figs. 36G–I View FIGURE 36 ), by the shorter ventral apophysis of the trochanter ( Fig. 36D View FIGURE 36 ), and by the shorter and thinner tip of the appendix ( Fig. 36H View FIGURE 36 ).

Redescription. Male (Shanghai), total length 6.2: cephalothorax 1.7 long, 1.8 wide; abdomen 4.5 long, 1.7 wide. Leg I: 43.0 (10.6+0.8+10.9+17.5+3.2), tibia II: 7.7, tibia III: 5.7, tibia IV: 7.2; tibia I L/D: 64. Prosoma shape as in Fig. 36C View FIGURE 36 . Carapace short, broad and almost circular, ochre, with pair of brown butterflyshaped patterns broadly connecting to ocular area. Cephalic region raised, with two brown slender lines centrally, ocular area dark yellow. Clypeus 0.55, slightly ochre, without yellow marks. Distance AME–AME 0.05. Diameter AME 0.08, ALE 0.16, PME 0.13, PLE 0.14. Chelicerae as in Fig. 36E View FIGURE 36 , with pair of black serrated apophyses distally, pair of unsclerotized thumb-shaped apophyses proximolaterally and pair of small unsclerotized rounded apophyses proximocentrally. Labium and endites light yellow. Sternum with four pairs of light brown marks along the margin as in Fig. 36F View FIGURE 36 . Femora, patellae and tibiae fawn, with dark rings, metatarsi and tarsi brown. Abdomen cylindrical, pale ochre, dorsum without brown patterns as in Fig. 36C View FIGURE 36 . Venter pale brown. Palps as in Figs. 36H and 36I View FIGURE 36 , bulb with triangular uncus and hook-shaped appendix. Procursus as in Fig. 36G View FIGURE 36 .

Variation. Tibia I in two other males: 9.2, 10.5. Body length in two other males: 5.8, 6.1.

Female: in general very similar to male. A specimen measured (Daju Island), total length 6.1: cephalothorax 1.6 long, 1.8 wide; abdomen 4.5 long, 2.0 wide. Tibia I: 8.8. Distance AME–AME 0.05. Diameter AME 0.09, ALE 0.18, PME 0.16, PLE 0.17. Epigynum roughly flattened-triangular-shaped as in Fig. 36A View FIGURE 36 , with a small knob-shaped apophysis on the top. Dorsal view as in Fig. 36B View FIGURE 36 , with a wavy sclerotized arch anteriorly and a pair of large, oval pore plates posteriorly.

Distribution. Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Shanghai, Sichuan; Cosmopolitan.

Material. Types unknown.

Material examined. CHINA: Zhejiang: Daju Island , Daishan County , July 18, 1980, 1♀, 2♂ ( MHBU) . Shanghai: October 1, 2005, leg. D. X. Song, 1♂ ( MHBU) ; 1♀, 1♂ (only right palp), no data ( MHBU) .

Remark. P. phalangioides is a cosmopolitan and synanthropic species distributed throughout the world. Wang & Zhu (1963) first listed it in “A list of Chinese spiders”. Hu (1984) also listed it according to Wang & Zhu’s recording. Chen & Zhang (1991) redescribed it from Zhejiang Province.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Pholcidae

Genus

Pholcus

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Pholcus phalangioides ( Fuesslin, 1775 )

Zhang, Feng & Zhu, Ming-Sheng 2009
2009
Loc

Aranea phalangioides

Yaginuma, T. 1986: 29
Paik, K. Y. 1978: 227
Walckenaer, C. A. 1805: 80
Fuesslin, J. C. 1775: 9
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