Pholcus phungiformes, Oliger, 1983
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https://doi.org/ 10.12651/JSR.2021.10.1.086 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/595787BC-FFAC-AD41-D0BB-FA29D360988C |
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Felipe |
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Pholcus phungiformes |
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Pholcus phungiformes View in CoL -group
Diagnosis (modified from Huber, 2011). Members of phungiformes -group can be distinguished from members of other species-groups by the combination of the following characteristics: male chelicerae with a frontal apophysis; male palpal tibia with a prolatero-ventral tubercle; male genital bulb without appendix or having a pseudo-appendix (an apophysis arising from the uncus, not from the basal portion of the genital bulb).
Remarks. Somatic morphological features (e.g., patterns of carapace, sternum, opisthosoma and legs; arrangement of cheliceral apophyses) within members of this species-group are almost identical. Specific delimitation can be achieved by examining the morphological characteristics of copulatory organs in both sexes, which show extreme diversity.
Description of somatic morphology (modified from Huber, 2011). Male ( Fig. 1A, C, E, G View Fig ). Carapace round, pale yellow with dark brown radial linear patterns and marginal line dorsally; 8-eyes, a pair of eye triads (ALE + PME + PLE) at lateral portion in eye area, AMEs at antero-medial portion in eye area; a dark brown mark on the eye area postero-medially; eye area slightly elevated, similar to female; clypeus without apophysis, height similar to chelicera length, with a pair of dark brown marks; chelicera ( Fig. 2 View Fig ) brown, with two proximal apophyses (one in retrolateral, the other in frontal) and a distal apophysis arising prolaterally; endite pale yellow, without apophysis; sternum pale yellow, shield-shaped, angular portions slightly elongated toward the spaces between coxae, with dark brown marks marginally and a thin mark postero-medially; opisthosoma cylindrical, grayish yellow, with a lot of dark brown or black internal granular patterns visible through cuticle dorsally and laterally, except the cardiac area; leg femur and tibia with brown and grey band proximally and distally.
Female ( Fig. 1B, D, F, H View Fig ). Body shape and pattern almost same as male, except chelicerae without apophysis and slightly shorter in leg Ⅰ tibia.
Ecology. Spiders included in this species-group in Korea usually inhabit dusky, humid spaces such as rock crevices, underneath the herb leaves in the woods and road drains, making irregular or dome-sheet webs. They often aggregate in their microhabitat, about dozen individuals.
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