Panjange Deeleman-Reinhold & Deeleman, 1983

Huber, Bernhard A. & Nuñeza, Olga M., 2015, Evolution of genital asymmetry, exaggerated eye stalks, and extreme palpal elongation in Panjange spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae), European Journal of Taxonomy 169, pp. 1-46 : 3

Genus Panjange Deeleman-Reinhold & Deeleman, 1983

Panjange Deeleman-Reinhold & Deeleman, 1983: 123 –124. Type species by original designation: Panjange lanthana Deeleman-Reinhold & Deeleman, 1983 .

Panjange – Deeleman-Reinhold 1986a: 47, Fg. 6; 1986b: 220. — Huber 2001: 118–119; 2011: 108–110.

Note on species groups

Previous work on Panjange has identiFed three species groups, the nigrifrons group on Borneo, the widespread cavicola group (Sulawesi to northern Australia) and the previously monotypic lanthana group on the Philippines ( Deeleman-Reinhold & Platnick 1986; Huber 2011). The present cladistic analysis largely recovers these three groups, but the cavicola group is considered paraphyletic ( Fig. 1 ).

The present paper focuses on the lanthana group A separate paper on the nigrifrons group is in preparation, as is a molecular phylogeny of the entire genus and of its relationships to other Pholcinae.

Figures

Fig. 1. Strict consensus of two most parsimonious cladograms of Panjange Deeleman-Reinhold & Deeleman, 1983 resulting from analyses of the matrix in Appendix 1 using equal character weights, successive weighting, and implicit enumeration. Only unambiguous character changes are shown. A = clade with asymmetric male palps; * = positions of Pa. bukidnon Huber sp. nov. in preliminary cladistic analyses. See Cladistic analysis section for further details.