Taxon details

Family: Pholcidae / Genus: Holocnemus

Holocnemus pluchei (Scopoli, 1763)

  • Rank: Species (Genus type)
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2023-01-05
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:003407]
  • Distribution: Europe, North Africa, Turkey, Caucasus, Middle East. Introduced to USA, Argentina, Japan, Australia
Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: ; m (probably lost) of Pholcus ruralis (Huber, 2022)
  • Syntype: ; (probably lost) (Huber, 2022)
  • Syntype: ; ff (probably lost) of Pholcus rivulatus (Huber, 2022)
  • Syntype: ; 4m (probably lost) of Pholcus impressus (Huber, 2022)
  • Syntype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France; 4m 4f of Pholcus barbarus (Huber, 2022)
Taxonomic references
Aranea pluchii Scopoli, 1763: 404 (D).
Aranea rivulata Forsskål, 1775: 86, pl. 24 (Df).
Aranea rivulata Forsskål, 1776: 7, pl. 24, f. F.
Pholcus rivulatus Audouin, 1826: 358, pl. 3, f. 12 (Dm).
Pholcus impressus C. L. Koch, 1837a: 99, f. 313 (Dm).
Pholcus barbarus Lucas, 1846: 237, pl. 15, f. 1 (Dmf).
Pholcus ruralis Blackwall, 1858a: 432 (Dm).
Pholcus pluchii Simon, 1866a: 122, pl. 2, f. 11 (f, S of Pholcus rivulatus).
Holocnemus rivulatus Simon, 1873a: 49 (S of Pholcus barbarus, P. impressus and P. ruralis).
Holocnemus rivulatus Simon, 1874a: 256, pl. 4, f. 16 (mf).
Holocnemus pluchei Simon, 1914: 237, 240.
Holocnemus pluchei Kratochvíl, 1932a: 2, f. 1-4 (mf).
Holocnemus pluchei Wiehle, 1933: 242, f. 2a.
Holocnemus pluchei Kratochvíl, 1940: 8, f. 1b, d.
Holocnemus pluchei Brignoli, 1971b: 82, f. 1-6 (mf).
Holocnemus pluchii Timm, 1976: 70, f. 1-2 (m).
Holocnemus pluchii Wunderlich, 1980a: 227, f. 31-32 (m).
Holocnemus pluchei Heimer & Nentwig, 1991: 40, f. 80 (mf).
Holocnemus pluchei Baldacchino et al., 1993: 41, f. 1b-c (m).
Holocnemus pluchei Huber, 1995c: 291, f. 1A, 2A-B, 4A-B, 6A-D, 7A-C, 10A (mf).
Holocnemus pluchei Huber, 2000: 12, f. 14, 120, 176 (m).
Holocnemus pluchei Van Keer & Van Keer, 2001: 83, f. 3.1-6 (mf).
Holocnemus pluchei Kovács, Szinetár & Eichardt, 2006: 9, f. 1-3 (mf).
Holocnemus pluchei Le Peru, 2011: 152, f. 182 (mf).
Holocnemus pluchei Benhadi-Marín et al., 2013: 75, f. 2C1-3 (mf).
Holocnemus pluchei Ponomarev, Snegovaya & Shmatko, 2019: 233, f. 2-4 (mf).
Holocnemus pluchei Lecigne, 2020: 50, pl. 1H-I, ph. 3 (mf).
Holocnemus pluchei Kenichi, 2021: 17, f. 1-9 (mf).
Holocnemus pluchei Huber, 2022: 9, f. 5-6, 13-58 (mf).
Holocnemus pluchei Zarikian, Propistsova & Marusik, 2022: 113, f. 8A-F (f).
Holocnemus pluchei Zarikian, 2022a: 759, f. 1 (f).
References

Audouin, V. (1826). Explication sommaire des planches d'arachnides de l'Égypte et de la Syrie. In: Savigny, M. J. C. L. de: "Description de l'Égypte, ou recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont été faites en Égypte pendant l'expédition de l'armée franҫaise, publié par les ordres de sa Majesté l'Empereur Napoléon le Grand.". Histoire Naturelle 1(4): 1-339 (arachnids, pp. 99-186, pl. 1-7). [for year of publication and authorship see Sherbourn, 1897, Tollitt, 1986 and ICZN, 1987b; a second edition was publ. in 1829, with different pagination: arachnids, pp. 291-430] download pdf -- Show included taxa

Baldacchino, A. E., Dandria, D., Lanfranco, E. & Schembri, P. J. (1993). Records of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from the Maltese Islands (central Mediterranean). The Central Mediterranean Naturalist 2(2): 37-59. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Benhadi-Marín, J., Barrientos, J. A., Ferrández, M. Á., Henriques, S. & Morano, E. (2013). Second annotated list of selected spider families (Arachnida: Araneae) held at the University of León (Spain). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 22: 71-78. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Blackwall, J. (1858a). Descriptions of six newly discovered species and characters of a new genus of Araneida. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (3) 1(6): 426-434. doi:10.1080/00222935808696953 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Brignoli, P. M. (1971b). Note sui Pholcidae d'Italia (Araneae). Fragmenta Entomologica 7: 79-101. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Forsskål, P. (1775). Descriptiones animalium avium, amphibiorum, piscium, insectorum, vermium; quae in itinere orientali observavit Petrus Forskål [sic]. Möller, Hauniae [= Copenhagen], pp. 85-86. [for the spelling of the name see Forsskål in Wikipedia] download pdf -- Show included taxa

Forsskål, P. (1776). Icones rerum naturalium, quas in itinere orientali depingi curavit Petrus Forskål [sic]. Möller, Hauniae [= Copenhagen], 43 pls. (Araneae, pls. 24-25). [for the spelling of the name see Forsskål in Wikipedia] download pdf -- Show included taxa

Heimer, S. & Nentwig, W. (1991). Spinnen Mitteleuropas: Ein Bestimmungsbuch. Paul Parey, Berlin, 543 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Huber, B. A. (1995c). Copulatory mechanism in Holocnemus pluchei and Pholcus opilionoides, with notes on male cheliceral apophyses and stridulatory organs in Pholcidae (Araneae). Acta Zoologica, Stockholm 76(4): 291-300. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6395.1995.tb01001.x download pdf -- Show included taxa

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 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Huber, B. A. (2022). Revisions of Holocnemus and Crossopriza: the spotted-leg clade of Smeringopinae (Araneae, Pholcidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 795: 1-241. doi:10.5852/ejt.2022.795.1663 download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

Kenichi, K. T. (2021). [New records of Holocnemus pluchei (Scopoli 1763) (Pholcidae) from Japan]. Acta Arachnologica 70(1): 11-19. doi:10.2476/asjaa.70.17 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Koch, C. L. (1837a). Die Arachniden. C. H. Zeh'sche Buchhandlung, Nürnberg, Dritter Band, pp. 105-119, pl. 106-118 (f. 246-252); Vierter Band, pp. 1-108, pl. 119-138 (f. 253-318). [for the correct year of publication see Brignoli, 1985b] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.43744 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Kovács, G., Szinetár, C. & Eichardt, J. (2006). Holocnemus pluchei (Scopoli, 1763) (Araneae: Pholcidae) in Hungary. Állattani Közlemények 91: 9-18. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Kratochvíl, J. (1932a). Prispevek k poznání Araneid stredni Slavonie. Sborník Vysoké Školy Zemědělské, Brno (C) 23: 1-16. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Kratochvíl, J. (1940). Etude sur les araignées cavernicole du genre Stygopholcus Krat. Acta Societatis Scientiarum Naturalium Moraviae 12(5): 1-26. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Le Peru, B. (2011). The spiders of Europe, a synthesis of data: Volume 1 Atypidae to Theridiidae. Mémoires de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon 2: 1-522. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Lecigne, S. (2020). Sur quelques observations intéressantes d’araignées du Nord et du Pas-de-Calais (France) - 1re note. Le Héron 51(2, 2018): 45-60. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Lucas, H. (1846). Histoire naturelle des animaux articulés. In: Exploration scientifique de l'Algérie pendant les années 1840, 1841, 1842 publiée par ordre du Gouvernement et avec le concours d'une commission académique. Paris, Sciences physiques, Zoologie 1, 89-271, pl. 1-17. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.112444 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Ponomarev, A. V., Snegovaya, N. Y. & Shmatko, V. Y. (2019). Synaphosus shirin Ovtsharenko, Levi [sic] et Platnik [sic], 1994 (Gnaphosidae) and Holocnemus pluchei (Scopoli, 1763) (Pholcidae) – two new species of spiders (Aranei) in the fauna of the Caucasus. Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 15(2): 233-235. doi:10.23885/181433262019152-233235 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Scopoli, J. A. (1763). Entomologia carniolica, exhibens insecta carniolae indigena et distributa in ordines, genera, species, varietates. Methodo Linnaeana. Ioannis Thomae Trattner, Vindobonae [= Johannes Thomas Trattner, Wien/Vienna], 420 pp. (Araneae, pp. 392-404). doi:10.5962/bhl.title.34434 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1866a). Monographie des espèces européennes du genre Pholcus. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (4) 6: 117-124, pl. 2. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1873a). Aranéides nouveaux ou peu connus du midi de l'Europe. (2e mémoire). Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège (2) 5(8): 1-174, pl. 1-3. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1874a). Les arachnides de France. Paris 1, 1-272. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1914). Les arachnides de France. Synopsis générale et catalogue des espèces françaises de l'ordre des Araneae. Tome VI. 1re partie. Roret, Paris, pp. 1-308. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Timm, H. (1976). Die Bedeutung von Genitalstrukturen für die Klärung systematischer Fragen bei Zitterspinnen (Arachnida: Araneae: Pholcidae). Entomologica Germanica 3(1-2): 69-76. doi:10.1127/entom.germ/3/1976/69 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Van Keer, K. & Van Keer, J. (2001). Ingeburgerde exotische trilspinnen (Araneae: Pholcidae) in Antwerpse haven en enkele algemene bedenkingen bij spinnenmigratie. Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 16(3): 81-86. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Wiehle, H. (1933). Holocnemus hispanicus sp. n. und die Gattungen Holocnemus Simon und Crossoprisa Simon. Zoologischer Anzeiger 104(9/10): 241-252. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Wunderlich, J. (1980a). Zur Kenntnis der Gattung Pholcus Walckenaer, 1805 (Arachnida: Araneae: Pholcidae). Senckenbergiana Biologica 60: 219-227. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Zarikian, N. A., Propistsova, E. A. & Marusik, Y. M. (2022). On spider families (Arachnida: Araneae) new to Armenia. Israel Journal of Entomology 51(2021): 103-117. [publ. in April 2022] doi:10.5281/zenodo.6466083 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Zarikian, N. A. (2022a). New records of Araneae from Armenia. Indian Journal of Entomology 84(4): 757-760. doi:10.55446/IJE.2022.688 download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2023-01-05 New taxonomic reference entry Zarikian, 2022a n/a
2022-05-26 New taxonomic reference entry Zarikian, Propistsova & Marusik, 2022 n/a
2022-02-23 New taxonomic reference entry Huber, 2022 n/a
2022-02-23 Species distribution update Huber, 2022 n/a (Old value)
2021-07-07 New taxonomic reference entry Kenichi, 2021 n/a
2021-07-07 Species distribution update Kenichi, 2021 n/a (Old value)
2020-11-05 Species distribution update Ponomarev, Snegovaya & Shmatko, 2019 n/a (Old value)
2020-11-05 New taxonomic reference entry Ponomarev, Snegovaya & Shmatko, 2019 n/a
2020-11-05 Species distribution update Ponomarev, Snegovaya & Shmatko, 2019 n/a (Old value)
2020-03-18 New taxonomic reference entry Lecigne, 2020 n/a
2015-02-23 New taxonomic reference entry Van Keer & Van Keer, 2001 n/a