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Micropholcus
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| Micropholcus | |
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| Micropholcus fauroti | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Pholcidae |
| Genus: | Micropholcus Deeleman-Reinhold & Prinsen, 1987[1] |
| Type species | |
| M. fauroti (Simon, 1887)
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| Species | |
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17, see text | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Micropholcus is a genus of cellar spiders that was first described by Christa Laetitia Deeleman-Reinhold & J. D. Prinsen in 1987.[3]
Species
[edit]It accepted a number of transfers from genus Leptopholcus in 2014, increasing its number of species to 15. As of November 2021[update] it contains 17 species, with a pantropical distribution:[1]
- Micropholcus agadir (Huber, 2011) – Morocco
- Micropholcus baoruco (Huber, 2006) – Hispaniola
- Micropholcus brazlandia (Huber, Pérez & Baptista, 2005) – Brazil
- Micropholcus crato Huber, Carvalho & Benjamin, 2014 – Brazil
- Micropholcus dalei (Petrunkevitch, 1929) – Puerto Rico, Virgin Is.
- Micropholcus delicatulus (Franganillo, 1930) – Cuba
- Micropholcus evaluna (Huber, Pérez & Baptista, 2005) – Venezuela
- Micropholcus fauroti (Simon, 1887) (type) – Temperate Asia. Introduced to both Americas, Belgium, Germany, Africa, Sri Lanka, Southeast Asia, Australia, Pacific Is.
- Micropholcus hispaniola (Huber, 2000) – Hispaniola
- Micropholcus jacominae Deeleman-Reinhold & van Harten, 2001 – Yemen
- Micropholcus jamaica (Huber, 2000) – Jamaica
- Micropholcus pataxo (Huber, Pérez & Baptista, 2005) – Brazil
- Micropholcus piaui Huber, Carvalho & Benjamin, 2014 – Brazil
- Micropholcus piracuruca Huber, Carvalho & Benjamin, 2014 – Brazil
- Micropholcus tegulifer (Barrientos, 2019) – Morocco
- Micropholcus toma (Huber, 2006) – Hispaniola
- Micropholcus ubajara Huber, Carvalho & Benjamin, 2014 – Brazil
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Micropholcus Deeleman-Reinhold & Prinsen, 1987". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-04.
- ^ Huber, B. A. (2009). "Four new generic and 14 new specific synonymies in Pholcidae, and transfer of Pholcoides Roewer to Filistatidae (Araneae)". Zootaxa. 1970: 66. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1970.1.3.
- ^ Deeleman-Reinhold, C. L.; Prinsen, J. D. (1987). "Micropholcus fauroti (Simon) n. comb., a pantropical, synanthropic spider (Araneae: Pholcidae)". Entomologische Berichten, Amsterdam. 47: 73–77.
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