Strand, 1907 : 126 Huber 2011a : 415 Irie, 2002 : 141 Irie 2009 : 108 Peng & Zhang, 2011 : 1 Pholcus fragillimus Pholcus acerosus Pholcus fragillimus Pholcus okinawaensis Pholcus fragillimus Fourteen new generic and ten new specific synonymies in Pholcidae (Araneae), and transfer of Mystes Bristowe to Filistatidae Huber, Bernhard A. Colmenares, Pío A. Ramirez, Martin J. Zootaxa 2014 3847 3 413 422 4GL4X Strand, 1907 Strand 1907 [151,555,1022,1048] Arachnida Pholcidae Pholcus Animalia Araneae 7 420 Arthropoda species fragillimus     Pholcus fragillimus  Strand, 1907: 126–128 (♂♀).  Huber 2011a: 415–417, figs. 1924–26, 1956–58, 2017–21(♂♀).  Pholcus okinawaensis  Irie, 2002: 141–143, figs. 1–7 (♂♀).  Irie 2009: 108, figs. ( 2-2-13) 21–23. Synonymized by Huber (2011a).    Pholcus acerosus  Peng & Zhang, 2011: 1–3, figs. 1a–g (♂♀); new synonymy.  Justification of synonymy.Peng & Zhang’s (2011) drawings show most of the distinctive characters of  Pholcus fragillimus(three pairs of frontal apophyses on male chelicerae; large scales on uncus; male palpal tarsus elongation; procursus shape; long hairs on high male ocular area; epigynum shape; see also figs.  2017–2021in Huber 2011a). A re-examination (by BAH) of 1♂1♀ paratypesof  Pholcus acerosus(from Hainan Island, China; deposited in MHBU) also revealed the presence of the distinctive semitransparent process on the appendix.  Note.Strand’s (1907) description of  Pholcus fragillimusis based on specimens from Sri Lanka, it is written in German, and it provides no illustrations. Irie (2002)was the first to provide illustrations, but he also failed to recognize the species and created a synonym (  Pholcus okinawaensis). It was only in the same year of Peng & Zhang’s publication that the identity of  Pholcus fragillimusbecame finally known ( Huber 2011a). It is widely distributed in southern and eastern Asia (fig. 1979 in Huber 2011a).