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

Pholcus bernhardi Sherwood & Krammer, 2025

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:064333

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Described:

Distribution: Malaysia (peninsula), Indonesia (Sumatra, Java)

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Naturalis, National Museum of Natural History (RMNH), Leiden, Netherlands m - (Sherwood & Krammer, 2025)
Paratype: Naturalis, National Museum of Natural History (RMNH), Leiden, Netherlands 1m 1f - (Sherwood & Krammer, 2025)
Paratype: California Academy of Sciences (CAS), San Francisco, USA 1m - (Sherwood & Krammer, 2025)

Taxonomic References

Pholcus gracillimus Huber, 2011b: 283, f. 1360, 1394-1395, 1420-1424 (mf; misidentified per Yao, Tavano & Li, 2013: 303 and Sherwood & Krammer, 2025: 34)

Pholcus bernhardi Sherwood & Krammer, 2025: 34 (Dmf) Original description

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

Sherwood, D. & Krammer, H.-J. (2025). Studies on spider nomenclature - II: a synonymy and misidentification in Asian Pholcus Walckenaer, 1805 (Araneae: Pholcidae). Arachnology 20(1): 34-36. doi: 10.13156/arac.2024.20.1.34 -- Show included taxa

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value
2025-03-13	Taxonomic reference added from other taxon		Old value
2025-03-13	New taxonomic reference entry	Sherwood & Krammer, 2025
2025-03-13	New species inserted	Sherwood & Krammer, 2025

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