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Genus: Chibchea Huber, 2000 | Family: Pholcidae C. L. Koch, 1850

Chibchea minima (Schmidt, 1956)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:003842

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Described:

Distribution: Ecuador

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany f (37409) - (Huber, Meng & Cabra-García, 2026)

Taxonomic References

Psilochorus minimus Schmidt, 1956a: 24 (Df) Original description

Psilochorus minimus Huber, 2000: 345 (may be misplaced)

Chibchea minima Huber, Meng & Cabra-García, 2026: 26, f. 16A-D, 17A-E, 18A-L, 19A-F, 20A-C (Dm, f)

References

Huber, B. A. (2000). New World pholcid spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae): a revision at generic level. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 254: 1-348. doi: 10.1206/0003-0090(2000)254<0001:NWPSAP>2.0.CO;2 -- Show included taxa

Huber, B. A., Meng, G. L. & Cabra-García, J. (2026). On South American spiders previously misplaced in Psilochorus Simon (Araneae: Pholcidae), with the description of a new genus with a remarkable disjunct distribution. Zootaxa 5828(1): 1-37, f. S1-S2. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5828.1.1 [[Zoobank: E769C439-2FDB-44C4-951B-ADF6BD349D98]] -- Show included taxa

Schmidt, G. (1956a). Genus- und Speziesdiagnosen neuer, mit Bananen eingeschleppter Spinnen nebst Mitteilung über das Auffinden der Männchen zweier Spinnenarten. Zoologischer Anzeiger 157: 24-31. -- 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
2026-06-09	First description of male	Huber, Meng & Cabra-García, 2026
2026-06-09	New taxonomic reference entry	Huber, Meng & Cabra-García, 2026
2026-06-09	Species transferred to new genus	Huber, Meng & Cabra-García, 2026	Species transferred from Psilochorus Simon, 1893 to Chibchea Huber, 2000