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
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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
).