Giloloa Huber gen. n.

Type species. Giloloa sofifi sp. n.

Etymology. The genus name is derived from Gilolo, former name of Halmahera, type locality of the type species; gender feminine.

Diagnosis/Description. See diagnosis and description of single known species below.

Generic Relationships. The recent molecular phylogeny of Pholcidae (Eberle et al. 2018) placed Giloloa as sister to East Asian ‘ Spermophora ’ Hentz, 1841 + Aetana Huber, 2005 . This sister group relationship received high support; it is neither supported nor contradicted by morphological data.