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N.B.: considered a senior synonym of Hadrotarsidae Thorell, 1881: 190 (sub Hadrotarsoidae, removed from the synonymy of Oonopidae by Roewer, 1963a: 122, rejecting Roewer, 1942a: 287) by Forster, Platnick & Coddington, 1990: 111 (per Wunderlich, 1978a: 25 and Wunderlich, 1986: 95, rejecting Baert, 1984a: 615 and Davies, 1985: 67), who recognized an expanded Hadrotarsinae as well as a separate subfamily Spintharinae Simon, 1894a: 512 (sub Spinthareae); the subfamily Theonoeinae Simon, 1894a: 586 (sub Theonoeae) (synonym Pholcommatinae Simon, 1894a: 589, sub Pholcommateae), which include Theonoe Simon, 1881, Carniella Thaler & Steinberger, 1988, Robertus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1879 and Pholcomma Thorell, 1869, is circumscribed by Eskov & Marusik, 2024: 51; Eskov & Marusik, 2024: 52 also mention the subfamilies Argyrodinae Simon, 1881a: 14 (sub Argyrodini) and Latrodectinae Petrunkevitch, 1928: 117 (junior synyonym of Dipoeninae Simon, 1894a: 561, sub Dipoeneae).
In synonymy:
Ancylorrhanis Simon, 1894 = Pholcomma Thorell, 1869 (Levi & Levi, 1962: 16)
Armigera Marples, 1956 = Pholcomma Thorell, 1869 (Levi & Levi, 1962: 17)
N.B.: considered a senior synonym of Ancylorrhanis Simon, 1894a: 592 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05519] (type Pholcomma hirsutum Emerton, 1882) by Levi, 1957d: 108 and of Armigera Marples, 1956: 335 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05518] (type A. turbotti Marples, 1956) by Levi & Levi, 1962: 17; the generic placement of all species currently assigned to Pholcomma, with exception of P. gibbum and P. hirsutum, requires confirmation (Eskov et al., 2026: 52).
Transferred to other genera:
Pholcomma amamiense Yoshida, 1985 -- see Phycosoma
Pholcomma japonicum Yoshida, 1985 -- see Phycosoma
Pholcomma nigromaculatum Yoshida, 1987 -- see Phycosoma
Pholcomma yunnanense Song & Zhu, 1994 -- see Trogloneta
In synonymy:
Pholcomma projectum (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1862) = Pholcomma gibbum (Westring, 1851) (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873b: 445, sub Theridion)
Pholcomma thorelli Simon, 1873 = Pholcomma gibbum (Westring, 1851) (Simon, 1873a: 308)
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