Micropholcus

Micropholcus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Pholcidae
Genus:	Micropholcus; Deeleman-Reinhold & Prinsen, 1987
Type species
	M. fauroti; (Simon, 1887)
Species
	16, see text
Synonyms
	Mariguitaia González-Sponga, 2004;

Micropholcus is a genus of cellar spiders that was first described by Christa Laetitia Deeleman-Reinhold & J. D. Prinsen in 1987.^[3]

Species[]

It accepted a number of transfers from genus Leptopholcus in 2014, increasing its number of species to 15. As of June 2019 it contains sixteen species, with a pantropical distribution:^[1]

(Huber, 2011) – Morocco
(Huber, 2006) – Hispaniola
(Huber, Pérez & Baptista, 2005) – Brazil
Huber, Carvalho & Benjamin, 2014 – Brazil
(Petrunkevitch, 1929) – Puerto Rico, Virgin Is.
(Franganillo, 1930) – Cuba
(Huber, Pérez & Baptista, 2005) – Venezuela
Micropholcus fauroti (Simon, 1887) (type) – Temperate Asia. Introduced to both Americas, Belgium, Germany, Africa, Sri Lanka, Southeast Asia, Australia, Pacific Is.
(Huber, 2000) – Hispaniola
Deeleman-Reinhold & van Harten, 2001 – Yemen
(Huber, 2000) – Jamaica
(Huber, Pérez & Baptista, 2005) – Brazil
Huber, Carvalho & Benjamin, 2014 – Brazil
Huber, Carvalho & Benjamin, 2014 – Brazil
(Huber, 2006) – Hispaniola
Huber, Carvalho & Benjamin, 2014 – Brazil

References[]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Micropholcus Deeleman-Reinhold & Prinsen, 1987". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-04.
^ Huber, B. A. (2009). "Four new generic and 14 new specific synonymies in Pholcidae, and transfer of Pholcoides Roewer to Filistatidae (Araneae)". Zootaxa. 1970: 66. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1970.1.3.
^ Deeleman-Reinhold, C. L.; Prinsen, J. D. (1987). "Micropholcus fauroti (Simon) n. comb., a pantropical, synanthropic spider (Araneae: Pholcidae)". Entomologische Berichten, Amsterdam. 47: 73–77.

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[NMBE-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Micropholcus Deeleman-Reinhold & Prinsen, 1987". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-04.

[Hube2009-2] Huber, B. A. (2009). "Four new generic and 14 new specific synonymies in Pholcidae, and transfer of Pholcoides Roewer to Filistatidae (Araneae)". Zootaxa. 1970: 66. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1970.1.3.

[Deel1987-3] Deeleman-Reinhold, C. L.; Prinsen, J. D. (1987). "Micropholcus fauroti (Simon) n. comb., a pantropical, synanthropic spider (Araneae: Pholcidae)". Entomologische Berichten, Amsterdam. 47: 73–77.

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Micropholcus

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