Taxon details


Spermophora senoculata (Dugès, 1836)

  • Rank: Species (Genus type)
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2023-03-18
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:003927]
  • Distribution: Middle East. Introduced to USA, Jamaica, southern Europe, China, Korea, Japan
Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019); Spermophora topolia Roewer, 1928, 1 m (9900011-114)
Taxonomic references
Pholcus senoculatus Dugès, 1836a: 160 (D).
Spermophora meridionalis Hentz, 1841a: 116, pl. 17, f. 9 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:057483].
Pholcus quadri-punctatus Lucas, 1846: 239, pl. 15, f. 2 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:057482].
Rachus quadripunctatus Walckenaer, 1847a: 459.
Oophora meridionalis Hentz, 1850: 286, pl. 10, f. 9 (f).
Pholcus sex-oculatus Simon, 1866a: 119, pl. 2, f. 8-9 (lapsus, S of Pholcus quadripunctatus).
Spermophora meridionalis Emerton, 1882: 31, pl. 6, f. 3 (f).
Spermophora senoculata Chyzer & Kulczyński, 1891: 150.
Spermophora meridionalis Petrunkevitch, 1910: 208, pl. 21, f. 5 (Dm).
Simonius typicus Kishida, 1913f: 1020 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:057485].
Spermophora senoculata Simon, 1914: 238, f. 492 (mf).
Spermophora topolia Roewer, 1928b: 120, pl. 2, f. 35-36 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:057484].
Comaroma ressenensis Drensky, 1929: 36, 70, pl. 3, f. 9-10 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:009098].
Comaroma resnensis Drensky, 1935: 105 (lapsus, Dm).
Spermophora meridionalis Gertsch, 1939a: 1, f. 3 (m).
Spermophora topolia Hadjissarantos, 1940: 48, f. 15 (Df).
Simonius typicus Shinkai, 1969: 11, f. 5 (f).
Spermophora senoculata Dresco & Hubert, 1969: 170, f. 1-5 (mf).
Spermophora senoculata Yaginuma, 1974a: 170 (S of Simonius typicus and Spermophora meridionalis).
Spermophora senoculata Yaginuma, 1975b: 23, f. A-D (m).
Spermophora senoculata Miller & Žitňanská, 1976a: 81, pl. I, f. 1-3 (mf).
Spermophora domestica Yin & Wang, 1981c: 378, f. 1A-F (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:003900].
Spermophora senoculata Zhu, 1983: 17 (S of Spermophora domestica).
Spermophora senoculata Yaginuma, 1986a: 29, f. 17.7 (m).
Spermophora domestica Song, 1987: 111, f. 74 (mf; regarded as valid, contra Zhu, 1983: 17).
Spermophora senoculata Chikuni, 1989b: 27, f. 2 (mf).
Spermophora domestica Chen & Zhang, 1991: 76, f. 68.1-4 (mf).
Spermophora senoculata Heimer & Nentwig, 1991: 40, f. 84 (mf).
Spermophora senoculata Wunderlich, 1992a: 324 (S of Spermophora topolia).
Spermophora senoculata Paik, 1996b: 23, f. 1-7 (m).
Spermophora senoculata Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 65, f. 26B'-D' (mf).
Spermophora senoculata Szinetár, Kenyeres & Kovács, 1999: 162, f. 2A-C (f).
Spermophora senoculata Huber, 2000: 11, f. 11, 24-25, 70-71, 122, 162, 193 (m).
Spermophora senoculata Senglet, 2001: 50, f. 29-30, 46-49 (mf).
Spermophora senoculata Deltshev & Blagoev, 2001: 110 (S of Comaroma ressenensis).
Spermophora senoculata Van Keer & Van Keer, 2001: 83, f. 5.1-5 (mf).
Spermophora senoculata Namkung, 2002: 50, f. 5.9a-c (mf).
Spermophora senoculata Kim & Cho, 2002: 60, f. 13-18 (m).
Spermophora senoculata Huber, 2002b: 105, f. 1-13 (mf).
Spermophora senoculata Namkung, 2003: 52, f. 5.9a-c (mf).
Spermophora senoculata Lee & Kim, 2003: 117, f. 100-106 (mf).
Spermophora senoculata Deltshev, 2003: 137, f. 13-16 (f).
Spermophora senoculata Trotta, 2005: 171, f. 379-380 (mf).
Spermophora senoculata Jocqué & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2006: 206, f. 80j-l (mf).
Spermophora senoculata Kovács, Szinetár & Eichardt, 2008: 125, f. 1 (m).
Spermophora senoculata Senglet, 2008: 370, f. 106 (f).
Spermophora senoculata Irie, 2009: 111, f. 46-47 (m).
Spermophora senoculata Le Peru, 2011: 157, f. 201-202 (mf).
Spermophora senoculata Zhu & Zhang, 2011: 51, f. 23A-D (mf, probable S of Spermophora domestica).
Spermophora senoculata Yin et al., 2012: 175, f. 37a-g (mf, S of Spermophora domestica; confirming Zhu, 1983: 17).
Spermophora senoculata Schifani et al., 2019: 6, f. 1 (mf).
References

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Dresco, E. & Hubert, M. (1969). Araneae speluncarum Italiae I. Fragmenta Entomologica 6: 167-181. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Dugès, A. (1836a). Observations sur les Aranéides. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie, Paris (2) 6: 159-219. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Emerton, J. H. (1882). New England spiders of the family Theridiidae. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 6: 1-86. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Hadjissarantos, H. (1940). Les araignées de l'Attique. Athens, 132 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Huber, B. A. (2002b). Functional morphology of the genitalia in the spider Spermophora senoculata (Pholcidae, Araneae). Zoologischer Anzeiger 241: 105-116. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Kovács, G., Szinetár, C. & Eichardt, J. (2008). Data on the biology of pale cellar spider (Spermophora senoculata [Dugés, 1836]) (Araneae: Pholcidae). A Nyme Savaria Egyetemi Központ Tudományos Közleményei XVI. Természettudományok 11(Biológia): 125-135. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Miller, F. & Žitňanská, O. (1976a). Einige bemerkenswerte Spinnen aus der Slowakei. Biológia (Bratislava) 31(2): 81-89. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Paik, K. Y. (1996b). Korean spiders of the genus Spermophora Hentz, 1841 (Araneae: Pholcidae). Korean Arachnology 12(1): 21-27. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Petrunkevitch, A. (1910). Some new or little known American Spiders. Annals of the New York Academy of Science 19: 205-224, pl. 21-22. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Roewer, C. F. (1928b). Araneae. In: Zoologische Streifzüge in Attika, Morea und besonders auf der Insel Kreta. II. Abhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins zu Bremen 27(1): 92-124, pl. 1-2. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2022-12-07 Species distribution update n/a (Old value)
2021-06-16 New taxonomic reference entry Yin et al., 2012 n/a
2021-06-16 Species synonymy Yin et al., 2012 Spermophora domestica synonymized with Spermophora senoculata
2019-06-21 New taxonomic reference entry Schifani et al., 2019 n/a
2015-02-23 New taxonomic reference entry Van Keer & Van Keer, 2001 n/a