World Spider Catalog

Genus: Micropholcus Deeleman-Reinhold & Prinsen, 1987 | Family: Pholcidae C. L. Koch, 1850

Micropholcus toma Huber, 2006

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:039653

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Described:

Distribution: Hispaniola

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig (ZFMK), Bonn, Germany (data base search of type material, 18.01.2019) m (Ar 15915) -
Paratype: Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig (ZFMK), Bonn, Germany (data base search of type material, 18.01.2019) m (Ar 15916) -

Taxonomic References

Leptopholcus toma Huber in Huber & Wunderlich, 2006: 2353, f. 2e-f, k, 7a-d, 8a-m, 9c-d (Dmf) Original description

Leptopholcus toma Penney, 2008: 76, f. 5.25 (m)

Micropholcus toma Huber, Carvalho & Benjamin, 2014: 435 (T from Leptopholcus)

References

Huber, B. A. & Wunderlich, J. (2006). Fossil and extant species of the genus Leptopholcus in the Dominican Republic, with the first cases of egg-parasitism in pholcid spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae). Journal of Natural History 40(41-43): 2341-2360. doi: 10.1080/00222930601051196 -- Show included taxa

Huber, B. A., Carvalho, L. S. & Benjamin, S. P. (2014). On the New World spiders previously misplaced in Leptopholcus: molecular and morphological analyses and descriptions of four new species (Araneae: Pholcidae). Invertebrate Systematics 28(4): 432-450. doi: 10.1071/IS13050 -- Show included taxa

Penney, D. (2008). Dominican amber spiders: A comparative palaeontological-neontological approach to identification, faunistics, ecology and biogeography. Siri Scientific Press, 176 pp. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2015-03-17	New taxonomic reference entry	Huber, Carvalho & Benjamin, 2014
2015-03-17	Species transferred to new genus	Huber, Carvalho & Benjamin, 2014		Species transferred from Leptopholcus to Micropholcus