Physocyclus globosus Taczanowski, 1874

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Described:

Distribution: North America. Introduced to Africa, Czechia, Iran, Sri Lanka, China, Japan, Philippines, Indonesia, Australia, Pacific islands, Galapagos


Type Repository Provide information
  • Holotype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019) Pholcophora juruensis Mello-Leitão, 1922, (00844); 1 m (destroyed by the fire 2018) -
  • Holotype: Museo del Instituto de Zoología Agrícola (MIZA), Universidad Central de Venezuela, Maracay, Venezuela m (105781 = MAGS 1290) of Physocyclus boconoensis - (Huber & Villarreal, 2020)
  • Paratype: Museo del Instituto de Zoología Agrícola (MIZA), Universidad Central de Venezuela, Maracay, Venezuela 2f 5j (105781 = MAGS 1290) of Physocyclus boconoensis - (Huber & Villarreal, 2020)
  • Syntype: Museo del Instituto de Zoología Agrícola (MIZA), Universidad Central de Venezuela, Maracay, Venezuela ~10m ~50f (105786 = MAGS 1208) of Physocyclus borburatensis - (Huber & Villarreal, 2020)
  • Syntype: Museo del Instituto de Zoología Agrícola (MIZA), Universidad Central de Venezuela, Maracay, Venezuela 3m 5f 9j (105692 = MAGS 221) of Physocyclus cariacoensis - (Huber & Villarreal, 2020)
  • Syntype: Museo del Instituto de Zoología Agrícola (MIZA), Universidad Central de Venezuela, Maracay, Venezuela 3m 2f 10j (105745 = MAGS 95) of Physocyclus guatirensis - (Huber & Villarreal, 2020)
  • Syntype: Museo del Instituto de Zoología Agrícola (MIZA), Universidad Central de Venezuela, Maracay, Venezuela remains of some totally destroyed types (105750 = MAGS 846) of Physocyclus monaguensis - (Huber & Villarreal, 2020)
  • Syntype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019) Physocyclus dubius Mello-Leitão, 1922, (00845); 1 f 2 j (destroyed by the fire 2018) -
Taxonomic References
Pholcus globosus Taczanowski, 1874: 105 (Df) Original description
Pholcus gibbosus Keyserling, 1877c: 208, pl. 7, f. 2 (Df)
Pholcus claviger Simon, 1878g: 483 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:003686]
Physocyclus globosus Simon, 1893a: 470
Pholcus gibbosus Workman, 1896: 72, pl. 72 (f)
Decetia incisa O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898a: 234, pl. 29, f. 1 (Df)
Physocyclus globosus F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902a: 368, pl. 34, f. 22-23 (f, Dm)
Physocyclus rotundus F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902a: 369, pl. 35, f. 3-3a (f; misidentified per Valdez-Mondragón, 2010b: 76)
Physocyclus globosus Chamberlin, 1921b: 247, pl. 10, f. 4 (f)
Physocyclus dubius Mello-Leitão, 1922a: 210, f. 2 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:053953]
Pholcophora juruensis Mello-Leitão, 1922a: 210, f. 3-4 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:003662]
Physocyclus globosus Petrunkevitch, 1929b: 141, f. 132-135 (mf)
Physocyclus muricola Badcock, 1932: 7, f. 2 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:003775]
Physocyclus globosus Nakatsudi, 1943a: 152, f. 4a-e (mf)
Physocyclus globosus Mello-Leitão, 1946a: 71 (S of Physocyclus muricola)
Physocyclus globosus Mello-Leitão, 1946b: 33 (S of Physocyclus muricola)
Physocyclus globosus Brignoli, 1981c: 94, f. 14-18, 21-24 (mf)
Physocyclus globosus Yaginuma, 1986a: 31, f. 17.8 (m)
Artema atlanta Feng, 1990: 45, f. 20.1-7 (mf, misidentified)
Physocyclus globosus Huber & Eberhard, 1997: 905, f. 1-3, 5-9 (mf)
Physocyclus globosus Huber, 1998b: 1596, f. 116-119 (mf)
Physocyclus orientalis Zhu & Song in Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 63, f. 26A-H (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:003789]
Physocyclus globosus Huber, 2000: 149, f. 36, 49, 139, 169 (S of Physocyclus dubius)
Physocyclus globosus Huber & Zhu, 2001: 152 (S of Physocyclus orientalis)
Physocyclus globosus Saaristo, 2001b: 17, f. 23-34 (mf)
Physocyclus boconoensis González-Sponga, 2007: 56, pl. 1, f. 1-9 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:043585]
Physocyclus borburatensis González-Sponga, 2007: 58, pl. 2, f. 1-9 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:043586]
Physocyclus cariacoensis González-Sponga, 2007: 60, pl. 3, f. 1-9 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:043587]
Physocyclus guatirensis González-Sponga, 2007: 62, pl. 4, f. 1-10 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:043588]
Physocyclus monaguensis González-Sponga, 2007: 64, pl. 5, f. 1-9 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:043589]
Physocyclus globosus Beatty, Berry & Huber, 2008: 19, f. 12-14, 44-45 (mf)
Physocyclus globosus Irie, 2009: 111, f. 36-38 (mf)
Physocyclus globosus Huber, 2009a: 66 (S of Physocyclus boconoensis, P. borburatensis, P. cariacoensis, P. guatirensis and P. monaguensis)
Physocyclus globosus Silva-Moreira et al., 2010: 46 (S of Pholcus juruensis, after Huber, 2000: 344)
Physocyclus globosus Saaristo, 2010: 166, f. 25.46-53 (mf)
Physocyclus globosus Valdez-Mondragón, 2010b: 25, f. 42-48 (mf)
Physocyclus globosus Huber, 2011b: 126 (S of Pholcus claviger)
Physocyclus globosus Valdez-Mondragón, 2013b: 186, f. 14-15 (m)
Physocyclus globosus Gómez-Rodríguez et al., 2014: 69, f. 1D (m)
References

Badcock, H. D. (1932). Reports of an expedition to Paraguay and Brazil in 1926–7, supported by the Trustees of the Percy Sladen Memorial Fund and the Executive Committee of the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland. Arachnida from the Paraguayan Chaco. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 38(257): 1-48. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1932.tb00987.x -- Show included taxa

Beatty, J. A., Berry, J. W. & Huber, B. A. (2008). The pholcid spiders of Micronesia and Polynesia (Araneae, Pholcidae). Journal of Arachnology 36(1): 1-25. doi: 10.1636/H05-66.1 -- Show included taxa

Brignoli, P. M. (1981c). Studies on the Pholcidae, I. Notes on the genera Artema and Physocyclus (Araneae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 170: 90-100. -- Show included taxa

Chamberlin, R. V. (1921b). On some arachnids from southern Utah. The Canadian Entomologist 53(11): 245-247. doi: 10.4039/Ent53245-11 -- Show included taxa

Feng, Z. Q. (1990). Spiders of China in colour. Hunan Science and Technology Publishing House, 256 pp. -- Show included taxa

Gómez-Rodríguez, J. F., Montaño, H., Ibarra-Núñez, G. & Salazar O., C. A. (2014). Arácnidos (excepto ácaros) de Tamaulipas: listado actualizado y algunos registros nuevos. In: Correa S., A., Horta V., J. V., García J., J. & Barrientos L., L. (eds.) Biodiversidad Tamaulipeca Vol. 2, Núm. 2. Tecnológico Nacional de México - Instituto Tecnológico de Ciudad Victoria Tamaulipas, México, pp. 51-57, 64-74. -- Show included taxa

González-Sponga, M. A. (2007). Biodiversidad. Arácnidos de Venezuela. Descripción de cinco nuevas especies del género Physocyclus (Araneae pholcidae [sic]). Sapiens. Revista Universitaria de Investigación 8: 53-69. -- Show included taxa

Huber, B. A. & Eberhard, W. G. (1997). Courtship, copulation, and genital mechanics in Physocyclus globosus (Araneae, Pholcidae). Canadian Journal of Zoology 74(6): 905-918. doi: 10.1139/z97-109 -- Show included taxa

Huber, B. (1998b). The pholcid spiders of Costa Rica (Araneae: Pholcidae). Revista de Biología Tropical 45: 1583-1634. -- Show included taxa

Huber, B. A. (2000). New World pholcid spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae): A revision at generic level. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 254: 1-348. doi: 10.1206/0003-0090(2000)254<0001:NWPSAP>2.0.CO;2 -- Show included taxa

Huber, B. A. & Zhu, M. S. (2001). On Taczanowski's pholcids, with three new synonymies in Pholcidae (Araneae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 12: 151-152. -- Show included taxa

Huber, B. A. (2009a). Four new generic and 14 new specific synonymies in Pholcidae, and transfer of Pholcoides Roewer to Filistatidae (Araneae). Zootaxa 1970: 64-68, 1977: 68. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.1970.1.3 [, 10.11646/zootaxa.1997.1.6] -- Show included taxa

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

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

Keyserling, E. (1877c). Amerikanische Spinnenarten aus den Familien der Pholcoidae, Scytodoidae und Dysderoidae. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 27: 205-234. -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1922a). Quelques araignées nouvelles ou peu connues du Bresil. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 91: 209-228. -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1946a). Notas sobre os Filistatidae e Pholcidae. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 18: 39-83. -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1946b). Arañas del Paraguay. Notas del Museo de la Plata 11(Zool. 91): 17-50. -- Show included taxa

Nakatsudi, K. (1943a). Some Arachnida from Micronesia. Journal of Agricultural Science Tokyo Nogyo Daigaku 2: 147-180, pl. 12-14. -- Show included taxa

Petrunkevitch, A. (1929b). The spiders of Porto Rico. Part one. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 30: 1-158. -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1898a). Arachnida. Araneida. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London 1, 233-288, pl. 29-39. [[for the exact dates see Lyal, 2011]] -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, F. O. (1902a). Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London 2, 313-424. [[for the exact dates see Lyal, 2011]] -- Show included taxa

Saaristo, M. I. (2001b). Pholcid spiders of the granitic Seychelles (Araneae, Pholcidae). Phelsuma 9: 9-28. -- Show included taxa

Saaristo, M. I. (2010). Araneae. In: Gerlach, J. & Marusik, Y. M. (eds.) Arachnida and Myriapoda of the Seychelles islands. Siri Scientific Press, Manchester, pp. 8-306. -- Show included taxa

Silva-Moreira, T., Baptista, R. L. C., Kury, A. B., Giupponi, A. P. L., Buckup, E. H. & Brescovit, A. D. (2010). Annotated check list of Arachnida type specimens deposited in the Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro. II–Araneae. Zootaxa 2588: 1-91. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.2588.1.1 -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1878g). Étude sur les arachnides du Congo (suite) (1). Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France 2(6, 1877): 482-485. [[year corrected per Frétey, 2023: 8]] -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1893a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome premier. Roret, Paris, pp. 257-488. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.51973 [[second pdf with detailed publication dates of the single parts]] -- Show included taxa

Song, D. X., Zhu, M. S. & Chen, J. (1999). The spiders of China. Hebei Science and Technology Publishing House Shijiazhuang, 640 pp. -- Show included taxa

Taczanowski, L. (1874). Les aranéides de la Guyane française. Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicae 10: 56-115, pl. 2. -- Show included taxa

Valdez-Mondragón, A. (2010b). Revisión taxonómica de Physocyclus Simon, 1893 (Araneae: Pholcidae), con la descripción de especies nuevas de México. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 18: 3-80. -- Show included taxa

Valdez-Mondragón, A. (2013b). Morphological phylogenetic analysis of the spider genus Physocyclus (Araneae: Pholcidae). Journal of Arachnology 41: 184-196. doi: 10.1636/k12-33.1 -- Show included taxa

Workman, T. (1896). Malaysian spiders. Belfast, pp. 25-104. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.101972 -- Show included taxa

Yaginuma, T. (1986a). Spiders of Japan in color (new ed.). Hoikusha Publishing Co. Osaka, 305 pp., 64 pls. -- Show included taxa

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Edit History
Date Type Reference Old value Comment
2022-06-14 Species distribution update Huber & Acurio, 2022 Old value
2019-01-23 Species distribution update Huber, 2019 Old value
2018-09-20 Species distribution update Old value
2015-09-21 New taxonomic reference entry Gómez-Rodríguez et al., 2014

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