Pholcus phungiformes species group

Wang, Xiang, Shaheen, Shumaila, He, Qiaoqiao & Yao, Zhiyuan, 2020, Notes on two closely related spider species of the Pholcus phungiformes species group (Araneae, Pholcidae) from Beijing, China, ZooKeys 965, pp. 1-16 : 1

Pholcus phungiformes species group

Diagnosis and description.

See Huber (2011b).

Remarks.

The ‘appendix’ in the original figures of four species apparently arises from the uncus: P. papilionis Peng & Zhang, 2011, P. chiakensis Seo, 2014, P. gajiensis Seo, 2014, and P. palgongensis Seo, 2014. We consider this a divided ‘pseudo-appendix’ and assign them to the P. phungiformes species group. Moreover, although the species P. xianrendong Liu & Tong, 2015 does not possess a prolatero-ventral projection on the male pedipalpal tibia, the bulb without appendix, the locality of this species is within the range of the P. phungiformes species group. Therefore, we tentatively assigned P. xianrendong to this species group. In total, this species group now contains 59 species. Of these, one species is newly described below.