Pholcid spiders from the Lower Guinean region of Central Africa: an overview, with descriptions of seven new species (Araneae, Pholcidae) Author Bernhard A. Huber Author Philippe Le Gall Author Jacques Francois Mavoungou text European Journal of Taxonomy 2014 81 1 46 https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Bernhard_Huber/publication/265864695_Pholcid_spiders_from_the_Lower_Guinean_region_of_Central_Africa_an_overview_with_descriptions_of_seven_new_species_Araneae_Pholcidae/links/541ff0df0cf241a65a1ae4f6/Pholcid-spiders-from-the-Lower-Guinean-region-of-Central-Africa-an-overview-with-descriptions-of-seven-new-species-Araneae-Pholcidae.pdf journal article 31879 10.5852/ejt.2014.81 347a4cd6-19e4-4116-9429-0d2796f033b5 830852 urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:AC69F89F-C11B-49B1-8EEE-183286EDA755 Pholcus Walckenaer, 1805 Of the 29 operational species groups in Pholcus identified in Huber (2011b) , only three occur in Central Africa: (1) the bamboutos group, with four of its nine species in Central Africa ( Fig. 27 ; a fifth species, P. kakum Huber, 2009 , is likely to occur in Lower Guinea but has not yet been documented from there); (2) the circularis group, which is largely endemic to the area considered here ( Fig. 28 ; only P. leruthi occurs further west, in Congolia and East Africa); (3) the debilis group, which is largely endemic to the area considered here ( Fig. 29 ; only P. baka ranges into Congolia). While the monophyly of the debilis group is well supported, the relationships within and among the other groups remain largely obscure ( Huber 2011b ; Dimitrov et al. 2013 ).