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Genus: Leptopholcus Simon, 1893 | Family: Pholcidae C. L. Koch, 1850

Leptopholcus gracilis Berland, 1920

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:003434

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Described:

Distribution: Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, South Africa

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Holotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France f (10503) - (Huber, 2011b)

Taxonomic References

Leptopholcus gracilis Berland, 1920c: 131, f. 150-153 (Df) Original description

Leptopholcus gracilis Brignoli, 1980e: 649, f. 1-5 (f, Dm)

Leptopholcus gracilis Huber, 2011b: 71, f. 10, 212, 240-247, 301-315 (mf)

Leptopholcus gracilis Dippenaar-Schoeman & Webb, 2026: 23, f. 1-12 (mf)

References

Berland, L. (1920c). Arachnides. Araneae (2e partie). In: Voyage de Ch. Alluaud et R. Jeannel en Afrique Orientale (1911-1912). Résultats scientifiques. IV. L. Lhomme, Paris, pp. 95-180. -- Show included taxa

Brignoli, P. M. (1980e). Recherches en Afrique de l'Institut de Zoologie de l'Aquila (Italie) III. Sur le genre Leptopholcus Simon, 1893 (Araneae, Pholcidae). Revue Zoologique Africaine 94: 649-655. -- Show included taxa

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. & Webb, P. (2026). Notes on Leptopholcus gracilis Berland, 1920 a leaf-dwelling spider from South Africa (Araneae: Pholcidae). SANSA Newsletter 57: 23-25. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.19234869 -- 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

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2026-03-27	New taxonomic reference entry	Dippenaar-Schoeman & Webb, 2026