Taxon details

Family: Pholcidae / Genus: Pholcophora

Pholcophora americana Banks, 1896

  • Rank: Species (Genus type)
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2023-07-18
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:003660]
  • Distribution: Canada, USA
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Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), New York, USA; f (not found) of Pholcophora obscura (Huber, 2000)
  • Syntype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA; 2m 2f (but only the m was described in 1896) (Huber, 2000)
Taxonomic references
Pholcophora americana Banks, 1896e: 57 (Dm).
Pholcophora americana Gertsch, 1935a: 11, f. 19-21 (m, Df).
Pholcophora obscura Chamberlin & Ivie, 1935b: 12, pl. 6, f. 45 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:058297].
Pholcophora americana Gertsch, 1982b: 97, f. 1-4, 7-9 (mf, S of Pholcophora obscura).
Pholcophora americana Huber, 2000: 114, f. 129, 155, 429-440 (mf).
Pholcophora americana Huber et al., 2023c: 14, f. 3A, 4A-C, 5A-H, 6A-D, 7A-F, 8A-H, 33A-B (mf).
References

Banks, N. (1896e). New North American spiders and mites. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 23: 57-77. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Chamberlin, R. V. & Ivie, W. (1935b). Miscellaneous new American spiders. Bulletin of the University of Utah 26(4): 1-79. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Gertsch, W. J. (1935a). Spiders from the southwestern United States. American Museum Novitates 792: 1-31. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Gertsch, W. J. (1982b). The spider genera Pholcophora and Anopsicus (Araneae, Pholcidae) in North America, Central America and the West Indies. Association for Mexican Cave Studies Bulletin 8: 95-144. 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., Meng, G. L., Valdez-Mondragón, A., Král, J., Ávila Herrera, I. M. & Carvalho, L. S. (2023c). Short-legged daddy-long-leg spiders in North America: the genera Pholcophora and Tolteca (Araneae, Pholcidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 880: 1-89. doi:10.5852/ejt.2023.880.2173 download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Date Type Reference Detail
2023-07-18 New taxonomic reference entry Huber et al., 2023c n/a