Pholcomma

Pholcomma
Pholcomma gibbum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Theridiidae
Genus:	Pholcomma Thorell, 1869
Type species
P. gibbum (Westring, 1851)
Species
11, see text
Synonyms
Ancylorrhanis Simon, 1894 Armigera Marples, 1956

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

Species

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

• Pholcomma antipodianum (Forster, 1955) – New Zealand (Antipodes Is.)
• Pholcomma barnesi Levi, 1957 – USA
• Pholcomma carota Levi, 1957 – USA
• Pholcomma gibbum (Westring, 1851) (type) – Europe, North Africa, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Iran?
• Pholcomma hickmani Forster, 1964 – New Zealand (Campbell Is.)
• Pholcomma hirsutum Emerton, 1882 – USA, Canada
• Pholcomma mantinum Levi, 1964 – Brazil
• Pholcomma micropunctatum (Mello-Leitão, 1941) – Argentina
• Pholcomma soloa (Marples, 1955) – Samoa, Niue
• Pholcomma tokyoense Ono, 2007 – Japan
• Pholcomma turbotti (Marples, 1956) – New Zealand

Formerly included:

• P. amamiense Yoshida, 1985 (Transferred to Phycosoma)
• P. japonicum Yoshida, 1985 (Transferred to Phycosoma)
• P. nigromaculatum Yoshida, 1987 (Transferred to Phycosoma)
• P. yunnanense Song & Zhu, 1994 (Transferred to Trogloneta)

References

Further reading

• Levi, H. W. (1957). "The North American spider genera Paratheridula, Tekellina, Pholcomma and Archerius (Araneae: Theridiidae)". Transactions of the American Microscopical Society. 76 (2): 105–115. doi:10.2307/3223625. JSTOR 3223625.
• Levi, H. W.; Levi, L. R. (1962). "The genera of the spider family Theridiidae". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 127: 1–71.
• Levi, H. W. (1964). "The American spiders of the genera Styposis and Pholcomma (Araneae, Theridiidae)". Psyche: A Journal of Entomology. 71: 32–39. doi:10.1155/1964/91242.
• Marples, Brian John (1956). "Spiders from the Three Kings Islands". Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum. 4: 329–342. JSTOR 42906474. Wikidata Q58677519.
• Simon, E (1894). Histoire naturelle des araignées (in French). Paris: Roret. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973.

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