Micropholcus

Micropholcus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Superfamily: Pholcoidea
Family: Pholcidae
Genus: Micropholcus
Deeleman-Reinhold & Prinsen, 1987
Species

see list

Micropholcus is a genus of long legged, relatively fragile, so-called cellar spiders of the family Pholcidae. The type species M. fauroti was first described by Simon in 1887.[1] The genus has a pantropical distribution. Micropholcus accepted a number of transfers from genus Leptopholcus in 2014, increasing its number of species to 15.

Species

  • 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) — Pantropical, introduced in Belgium and Germany
  • 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 toma (Huber, 2006) — Hispaniola
  • Micropholcus ubajara Huber, Carvalho & Benjamin, 2014 — Brazil

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Micropholcus". World Spider Catalog. Retrieved 13 August 2017.


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