Taxon details

Family: Pholcidae / Genus: Micropholcus

Micropholcus toma (Huber, 2006)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2015-03-17
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:039653]
  • Distribution: Hispaniola
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Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig (ZFMK), Bonn, Germany (data base search of type material, 18.01.2019); m (Ar 15915)
  • Paratype: Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig (ZFMK), Bonn, Germany (data base search of type material, 18.01.2019); m (Ar 15916)
Taxonomic references
Leptopholcus toma Huber, in Huber & Wunderlich, 2006: 2353, f. 2e-f, k, 7a-d, 8a-m, 9c-d (Dmf).
Leptopholcus toma Penney, 2008: 76, f. 5.25 (m).
Micropholcus toma Huber, Carvalho & Benjamin, 2014: 435 (T from Leptopholcus).
References

Huber, B. A. & Wunderlich, J. (2006). Fossil and extant species of the genus Leptopholcus in the Dominican Republic, with the first cases of egg-parasitism in pholcid spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae). Journal of Natural History 40(41-43): 2341-2360. doi:10.1080/00222930601051196 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Huber, B. A., Carvalho, L. S. & Benjamin, S. P. (2014). On the New World spiders previously misplaced in Leptopholcus: molecular and morphological analyses and descriptions of four new species (Araneae: Pholcidae). Invertebrate Systematics 28(4): 432-450. doi:10.1071/IS13050 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Penney, D. (2008). Dominican amber spiders: A comparative palaeontological-neontological approach to identification, faunistics, ecology and biogeography. Siri Scientific Press, 176 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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GBIF.org (2019). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [1 September 2019]

Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2015-03-17 New taxonomic reference entry Huber, Carvalho & Benjamin, 2014 n/a
2015-03-17 Species transferred to new genus Huber, Carvalho & Benjamin, 2014 Species transferred from Leptopholcus to Micropholcus