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Genus: Micropholcus Deeleman-Reinhold & Prinsen, 1987 | Family: Pholcidae C. L. Koch, 1850

Micropholcus agadir (Huber, 2011)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:044794

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Described:

Distribution: Morocco

External Resources*: araneae - Spiders of Europe | GBIF

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS/KBIN), Brussels, Belgium m - (Huber, 2011b)

Taxonomic References

Pholcus agadir Huber, 2011b: 331, f. 1530-1531, 1553-1554, 1606-1611 (Dmf) Original description

Micropholcus agadir Huber, Eberle & Dimitrov, 2018: 99 (T from Pholcus)

Micropholcus agadir Huber & Meng, 2024: 158, f. 4D-E, 60A-C, 61A-E, 62A-C, 63A-E (mf)

References

Huber, B. A. (2011b). Revision and cladistic analysis of Pholcus and closely related taxa (Araneae, Pholcidae). Bonner Zoologische Monographien 58: 1-509. -- Show included taxa

Huber, B. A., Eberle, J. & Dimitrov, Di. (2018). The phylogeny of pholcid spiders: a critical evaluation of relationships suggested by molecular data (Araneae, Pholcidae). ZooKeys 789: 51-101. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.789.22781 -- Show included taxa

Huber, B. A. & Meng, G. L. (2024). Old World Micropholcus spiders, with first records of acrocerid parasitoids in Pholcidae (Araneae). ZooKeys 1213: 95-182. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1213.133178 -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Nentwig, W., Blick, T., Bosmans, R., Kropf, C., Stäubli, A.: Spiders of Europe. www.araneae.nmbe.ch. Version 01.2026. doi: 10.24436/1

GBIF.org (2026). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [8 January 2026]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Comment
2024-09-26	New taxonomic reference entry	Huber & Meng, 2024
2018-10-15	New taxonomic reference entry	Huber, Eberle & Dimitrov, 2018
2018-10-15	Species transferred to new genus	Huber, Eberle & Dimitrov, 2018	Species transferred from Pholcus to Micropholcus