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Genus: Hoplopholcus Kulczyński, 1908 | Family: Pholcidae C. L. Koch, 1850

Hoplopholcus forskali (Thorell, 1871)

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Described:

Distribution: Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Romania, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Turkey

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Type Repository Provide information

Syntype: mm ff (depository unknown) - (Huber, 2020)

Taxonomic References

Pholcus forskålii Thorell, 1871a: 151 (Df) Original description

Pholcus forskali Chyzer & Kulczyński, 1894: 149, pl. 6, f. 18 (Dm)

Hoplopholcus forskali Drensky, 1939b: 249, f. 22 (m)

Hoplopholcus forskali Loksa, 1969: 70, f. 46, 47C-D (m)

Haplopholcus forskali Fuhn & Niculescu-Burlacu, 1970: 415, f. 11 (f)

Hoplopholcus forskoeli Brignoli, 1976b: 561, f. 34-36, 38, 40 (mf)

Hoplopholcus forskoeli Brignoli, 1978g: 490, f. 58 (m)

Hoplopholcus forskali Senglet, 2001: 62, f. 6-7 (f)

Hoplopholcus forskali Le Peru, 2011: 154, f. 187 (mf)

Hoplopholcus forskali Kovács & Szinetár, 2016: 173, f. 1-2 (mf)

Hoplopholcus forskali Huber, 2020: 44, f. 194-197, 200-245 (mf)

Hoplopholcus forskali Geci et al., 2025a: 277, f. 8A-C (mf)

Hoplopholcus forskali Milasowszky et al., 2025: 124, f. 1a-b, 2a-b (mf)

References

Brignoli, P. M. (1976b). Ragni di Grecia IX. Specie nuove o interessanti delle famiglie Leptonetidae, Dysderidae, Pholcidae ed Agelenidae (Araneae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 83(3): 539-578. doi: 10.5962/bhl.part.91452 -- Show included taxa

Brignoli, P. M. (1978g). Ragni di Turchia V. Specie nuove o interessanti, cavernicole ed epigee, di varie famiglie (Araneae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 85(3): 461-541. doi: 10.1002/mmnz.19710470203 -- Show included taxa

Chyzer, C. & Kulczyński, W. (1894). Araneae Hungariae. Tomus II. Academia Scientarum Hungaricae Budapest, pp. 1-151, Pl. I-V. -- Show included taxa

Drensky, P. (1939b). Faounata na Paiatzite (Araneae) w Beulgaria. III. Podrazred Arachnomorphae; II klon Trionychia; semeystwa: Urocteidae; Uloboridae; Sicaridae; Pholcidae; Eresidae. Izvestiya na Tsarskite Prirodonauchni Instituti v Sofia 12: 231-252. -- Show included taxa

Fuhn, I. E. & Niculescu-Burlacu, F. (1970). Aranee din zona viitorului Lac de Baraj de la Porţile de Fier. Studii şi Cercetăride Biologie (Zool.) 22: 413-419. -- Show included taxa

Geci, D., Ibrahimi, H., Bilalli, A. & Musliu, M. (2025a). New records of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from the Western Balkans. Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics 11(2): 269-289. doi: 10.61186/jibs.11.2.269 -- Show included taxa

Huber, B. A. (2020). Revision of the spider genus Hoplopholcus Kulczyński (Araneae, Pholcidae). Zootaxa 4726(1): 1-94. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4726.1.1 -- Show included taxa

Kovács, G. & Szinetár, C. (2016). Adatok a mintás álkaszáspók [Hoplopholcus forskali (Thorell, 1871)] és a nagy álkaszáspók [Pholcus phalangioides (Fuesslin, 1775)] biológiájához (Araneae: Pholcidae) [Data on the biology of the patterned hanging spider [(Hoplopholcus forskali (Thorell, 1871)] and the large hanging spider [(Pholcus phalangioides (Fuesslin, 1775)] (Araneae: Pholcidae)]. A Nyme Savaria Egyetemi Központ Tudományos Közleményei 21(Természettudományok 16): 171-190. -- Show included taxa

Le Peru, B. (2011). The spiders of Europe, a synthesis of data: Volume 1 Atypidae to Theridiidae. Mémoires de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon 2: 1-522. -- Show included taxa

Loksa, I. (1969). Araneae I. Fauna Hungariae 97: 1-133. -- Show included taxa

Milasowszky, N., Hacker, P., Lind, E. & Timaeus, L. (2025). Validierter Erstnachweis von Hoplopholcus forskali (Thorell, 1871) (Arachnida: Araneae: Pholcidae) in Österreich. Biodiversität und Naturschutz in Ostösterreich - BCBEA 8(2): 124-127. -- Show included taxa

Senglet, A. (2001). Copulatory mechanisms in Hoplopholcus, Stygopholcus (revalidated), Pholcus, Spermophora and Spermophorides (Araneae, Pholcidae), with additional faunistic and taxonomic data. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 74(1-2): 43-67. doi: 10.5169/seals-402796 -- Show included taxa

Thorell, T. (1871a). Remarks on synonyms of European spiders. Part II. C. J. Lundström, Uppsala, pp. 97-228. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.69282 -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Nentwig, W., Blick, T., Bosmans, R., Kropf, C., Stäubli, A.: Spiders of Europe. www.araneae.nmbe.ch. Version 01.2026. doi: 10.24436/1

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value
2026-01-10	New taxonomic reference entry	Milasowszky et al., 2025
2026-01-10	Species distribution update	Milasowszky et al., 2025	Old value
2025-03-25	New taxonomic reference entry	Geci et al., 2025a
2025-03-25	Species distribution update	Geci et al., 2025a	Old value
2020-01-20	New taxonomic reference entry	Huber, 2020
2020-01-20	Species distribution update	Huber, 2020	Old value
2016-09-24	New taxonomic reference entry	Kovács & Szinetár, 2016