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Genus: Pholcus Walckenaer, 1805 | Family: Pholcidae C. L. Koch, 1850

Pholcus fragillimus Strand, 1907

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:003701

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Described:

Distribution: Sri Lanka, India to Japan

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Holotype: Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart (SMNS), Germany type material destroyed 1944 - (Renner, 1988b)

Taxonomic References

Pholcus fragillimus Strand, 1907k: 126 (Df) Original description

Pholcus okinawaensis Irie, 2002: 141, f. 1-7 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:039207]

Pholcus okinawaensis Irie, 2009: 108, f. 21-23 (mf)

Pholcus acerosus Peng & Zhang, 2011b: 1, f. 1a-g (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:044398]

Pholcus fragillimus Huber, 2011b: 415, f. 1924-1926, 1956-1958, 2017-2021 (mf, S of Pholcus okinawaensis)

Pholcus fragillimus Huber, Colmenares & Ramírez, 2014: 420 (S of Pholcus acerosus)

References

Huber, B. A. (2011b). Revision and cladistic analysis of Pholcus and closely related taxa (Araneae, Pholcidae). Bonner Zoologische Monographien 58: 1-509. -- Show included taxa

Huber, B. A., Colmenares, P. A. & Ramírez, M. J. (2014). Fourteen new generic and ten new specific synonymies in Pholcidae (Araneae), and transfer of Mystes Bristowe to Filistatidae. Zootaxa 3847(3): 413-422. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3847.3.5 -- Show included taxa

Irie, T. (2002). Two new species of the genera Pholcus and Spermophora (Araneae: Pholcidae) from the Nansei Islands, Japan. Acta Arachnologica 51(2): 141-144. doi: 10.2476/asjaa.51.141 -- Show included taxa

Irie, T. (2009). Pholcidae. In: Ono, H. (ed.) The spiders of Japan with keys to the families and genera and illustrations of the species. Tokai University Press, Kanagawa, pp. 106-111. -- Show included taxa

Peng, Y. Q. & Zhang, F. (2011b). A new species of the genus Pholcus Walckenaer, 1805 (Araneae, Pholcidae) from Hainan Island, China. International Scholarly Research Network Zoology 2011(345606): 1-3. -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1907k). Süd- und ostasiatische Spinnen. Abhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft Görlitz 25: 107-215. -- Show included taxa

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2014-09-15	New taxonomic reference entry	Huber, Colmenares & Ramírez, 2014
2014-09-15	Species synonymy	Huber, Colmenares & Ramírez, 2014		Pholcus acerosus synonymized with Pholcus fragillimus