Taxon details
Pholcus opilionoides (Schrank, 1781)
- Rank: Species
- Status: accepted
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Described:
- Last updated: 2024-04-06
- LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:003739]
- Distribution: Europe, Caucasus, Egypt. Introduced to Canada, USA
- External Resources *:
- Holotype: Zoological Museum of Moscow University (ZMMU), Moscow, Russia; m of Pholcus donensis (Huber, 2011b)
- Holotype: Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Verona (MSNVR/MCSN), Italy; f of Pholcus osellai (Huber, 2011b)
- Paratype: Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig (ZFMK), Bonn, Germany; 3m 3f (Ar05391-05393) of Pholcus donensis [N.B.: ex coll. Ponomarev] (Huber, 2011b)
- Paratype: Zoological Museum of Moscow University (ZMMU), Moscow, Russia; 2m 2f of Pholcus donensis (Ponomarev, 2005)
- Paratype: Aleksandr V. Ponomarev Private Collection, Rostov-on-Don, Russia; 5m 7f of Pholcus donensis [N.B.: originally 8m 10f, 3m 3f given to Bonn Museum) (Ponomarev, 2005)
- Syntype: ; (most probably lost) (Huber, 2011b)
- Syntype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France; jj (not found) of Pholcus grossipalpus (Huber, 2011b)
Pholcus phalangioides Hahn, 1834: 34, f. 119 (f; misidentified per Simon, 1874a: 259).
Pholcus opilionoides Simon, 1866a: 120, pl. 2, f. 1-6 (Dmf).
Pholcus grossipalpus Simon, 1866a: 121, pl. 2, f. 10 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060502].
Pholcus opilionoides Simon, 1874a: 259 (S of Pholcus grossipalpus).
Pholcus opilionoides Chyzer & Kulczyński, 1891: 149, pl. 6, f. 20 (mf).
Pholcus opilionoides Bösenberg, 1902: 219, pl. 19, f. 210 (mf).
Pholcus opilionoides Kulczyński, 1913a: 20, pl. 1, f. 3-4 (m).
Pholcus opilionoides Simon, 1914: 237, 243, f. 489-491 (mf).
Pholcus opilionoides Spassky, 1925: 26, f. 39 (m).
Pholcus opilionoides Wiehle, 1953: 39, f. 93-99 (mf).
Pholcus opilionoides Muller, 1967b: 130, f. 3-4 (mf).
Pholcus opilionoides Loksa, 1969: 71, f. 47A, 48C-D (mf).
Pholcus opilionoides Miller, 1971: 58, pl. II, f. 19-20 (f).
Pholcus osellai Brignoli, 1971i: 35, f. 1-3 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:003741].
Pholcus opilionoides Maughan & Fitch, 1976: 306, f. 3a (m).
Pholcus opilionoides Kaston, 1977: 6 (S of Pholcus manueli; rejected by Senglet, 2001: 62)..
Pholcus opilionoides Heimer & Nentwig, 1991: 40, f. 82 (mf).
Pholcus opilionoides Roberts, 1995: 99, f. (mf).
Pholcus opilionoides Huber, 1995c: 291, f. 1B, 3A-B, 5A-B, 10B (m).
Pholcus opilionoides Roberts, 1998: 101, f. (mf).
Pholcus opilionoides Senglet, 2001: 63, f. 39-45, 57 (mf, S of Pholcus osellai).
Pholcus opilionoides Van Keer & Van Keer, 2004: 80, f. 3a-b (mf).
Pholcus donensis Ponomarev, 2005: 44, f. 1c-d, 2a-e (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:039661].
Pholcus opilionoides Cutler, 2007: 129, f. 1B, D (mf).
Pholcus opilionoides Zhang & Zhu, 2009a: 59, f. 31A-C (m).
Pholcus opilionoides Le Peru, 2011: 156, f. 195 (mf).
Pholcus opilionoides Zhu & Zhang, 2011: 50, f. 22A-E (mf).
Pholcus opilionoides Huber, 2011b: 323, f. 1522-1523, 1545-1546, 1586-1589, 2189-2191 (mf, S of Pholcus donensis).
Pholcus opilionoides Fedoriak & Moscaliuc, 2013: 150, f. 1B, 2B, 3B, D (mf).
Pholcus opilionoides Fedoriak, 2015: 106, f. 2.6.4B, 2.6.5B, 2.6.6B, D (mf).
Pholcus opilionoides El-Hennawy, 2017a: 176, f. 4-5 (m).
Pholcus opilionoides Breitling, 2020: 353, f. 26G (m).
Pholcus opilionoides Pinzon, Kent & Bennett, 2022: 53, f. 1-6 (mf).
Pholcus opilionoides Kovács & Szinetár, 2022: 49, f. 1-3 (mf).
Pholcus opilionoides Brousseau & Dupuis, 2022: 96, f. 1-2 (f).
Bösenberg, W. (1902). Die Spinnen Deutschlands. II-IV. Zoologica (Stuttgart) 14(2-4): 97-384, pl. 9-36. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.6508 
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Breitling, R. (2020). South European spiders from the Duffey collection in the Manchester Museum (Arachnida: Araneae). Arachnology 18(4): 333-362. doi:10.13156/arac.2020.18.4.333 -- Show included taxa
Brignoli, P. M. (1971i). Un nuovo Pholcus europeo (Araneae, Pholcidae). Memorie del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona 19: 35-38. -- Show included taxa
Brousseau, P.-M. & Dupuis, M. E. (2022). Pholcus opilionoides (Schrank 1781); une nouvelle espèce de Pholcidae pour le Québec (Araneae: Pholcidae). Hutchinsonia 2: 95-97. -- Show included taxa
Chyzer, C. & Kulczyński, W. (1891). Araneae Hungariae. Tomus I. Academia Scientarum Hungaricae, Budapest, 170 pp., 4 Pls. -- Show included taxa
Cutler, B. (2007). The identity of the small, widespread, synanthropic Pholcus (Araneae, Pholcidae) species in the northeastern United States. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 110: 129-131. -- Show included taxa
El-Hennawy, H. K. (2017a). A list of Egyptian spiders (revised in 2017). Serket 15(4): 167-183. -- Show included taxa
Fedoriak, M. & Moscaliuc, L. A. (2013). The catalogue of "Alexandru Roşca" spider collection from the "Grigore Antipa" National Museum of Natural History (Bucharest). II. Mimetidae, Oxyopidae, Pholcidae, Pisauridae, Theridiidae. Travaux du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle “Grigore Antipa” 56(2): 143-156. doi:10.2478/travmu-2013-0011 -- Show included taxa
Fedoriak, M. M. (2015). Scientific heritage of Aleksandru Roshka as а basis for retrospective analysis of araneofauna of Bukovyna. Edited by Prof., Dr. S. S. Rudenko. Druk Art, Chernivtsi, 1-175. -- Show included taxa
Hahn, C. W. (1834). Die Arachniden. C. H. Zeh'sche Buchhandlung, Nürnberg, Zweiter Band, pp. 17-56, pl. 48-56 (f. 106-143). [for the correct year of publication see Brignoli, 1985b] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.43744 -- Show included taxa
Heimer, S. & Nentwig, W. (1991). Spinnen Mitteleuropas: Ein Bestimmungsbuch. Paul Parey, Berlin, 543 pp. -- 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 -- Show included taxa
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
Kaston, B. J. (1977). Supplement to the spiders of Connecticut. Journal of Arachnology 4: 1-72. -- Show included taxa
Kovács, G. & Szinetár, C. (2022). Adatok a kis álkaszáspók (Pholcus opilionoides [Schrank, 1781]) biológiájához (Araneae: Pholcidae) [Data on the biology of Pholcus opilionoides (Schrank, 1781) (Araneae: Pholcidae)]. Biológia Savaria Természettudományi és Sporttudományi Közlemények 20: 49-67. -- Show included taxa
Kulczyński, W. (1913a). Arachnoidea. In: Velitchkovsky, V. (ed.) Faune du district de Walouyki du gouvernement de Woronège (Russie). Cracovie 10, 1-30. -- 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. -- Show included taxa
Loksa, I. (1969). Araneae I. Fauna Hungariae 97: 1-133. -- Show included taxa
Maughan, O. E. & Fitch, H. S. (1976). A new pholcid spider from northeastern Kansas (Arachnida: Araneida). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 49: 304-312. -- Show included taxa
Miller, F. (1971). Pavouci-Araneida. Klíč zvířeny ČSSR 4: 51-306. -- Show included taxa
Muller, L. (1967b). Les pholcides dans le Grand-Duché de Luxembourg. Archives de l'Institut Grand-Ducal de Luxembourg 32: 129-133. -- Show included taxa
Pinzon, J., Kent, K. & Bennett, R. (2022). First record of Pholcus opilionoides (Schrank) (Araneae: Pholcidae) in Canada, with notes on its biology. Journal of the Entomological Society of British Columbia 118(2021): 53-56. -- Show included taxa
Ponomarev, A. V. (2005). New and interesting finds of spiders (Aranei) in the southeast of Europe. Vestnik Yuzhnogo Nauchnogo Tsentra Rossijskaja Akademija Nauk, Rostov 1(4): 43-50. -- Show included taxa
Roberts, M. J. (1995). Collins Field Guide: Spiders of Britain & Northern Europe. HarperCollins, London, 383 pp. -- Show included taxa
Roberts, M. J. (1998). Spinnengids. Tirion, Baarn, Netherlands, 397 pp. -- Show included taxa
Schrank, F. von P. (1781). Enumeratio insectorum austriae indigenorum. Vidvam Eberhardi Klett et Franck, Augustae Vindelicorum [= Eberhard Klett und Franck, Augsburg], 552 pp. (Araneae, pp. 526-534). -- Show included taxa
Senglet, A. (2001). Copulatory mechanisms in Hoplopholcus, Stygopholcus (revalidated), Pholcus, Spermophora and Spermophorides (Araneae, Pholcidae), with additional faunistic and taxonomic data. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 74(1-2): 43-67. doi:10.5169/seals-402796 -- 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. -- 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. -- Show included taxa
Simon, E. (1874a). Les arachnides de France. Paris 1, 1-272. -- Show included taxa
Spassky, S. A. (1925). [An identification book of spiders of Don area]. Znanie Press, Novocherkassk, 62 pp. -- Show included taxa
Van Keer, K. & Van Keer, J. (2004). In België aangetroffen exoten (Araneae) uit de collectie J. Van Keer. Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 18(2-3, 2003): 78-83. -- Show included taxa
Wiehle, H. (1953). Spinnentiere oder Arachnoidea (Araneae) IX: Orthognatha-Cribellatae-Haplogynae-Entelegynae (Pholcidae, Zodariidae, Oxyopidae, Mimetidae, Nesticidae). Die Tierwelt Deutschlands 42: 1-150. -- Show included taxa
Zhang, F. & Zhu, M. S. (2009a). A review of the genus Pholcus (Araneae: Pholcidae) from China. Zootaxa 2037: 1-114. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2037.1.1 -- Show included taxa
Zhu, M. S. & Zhang, B. S. (2011). Spider Fauna of Henan: Arachnida: Araneae. Science Press, Beijing, 558 pp. -- Show included taxa
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| Date | Type | Reference | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-05 | New taxonomic reference entry | Kaston, 1977 | n/a |
| 2023-12-05 | Taxonomic reference added from other taxon | n/a (Old value) | |
| 2022-09-19 | New taxonomic reference entry | Brousseau & Dupuis, 2022 | n/a |
| 2022-07-11 | Species distribution update | Zamani, Nadolny & Dolejš, 2022 | n/a (Old value) |
| 2022-05-30 | New taxonomic reference entry | Kovács & Szinetár, 2022 | n/a |
| 2022-02-07 | New taxonomic reference entry | Pinzon, Kent & Bennett, 2022 | n/a |
| 2022-02-07 | Species distribution update | Pinzon, Kent & Bennett, 2022 | n/a (Old value) |
| 2020-03-24 | New taxonomic reference entry | Breitling, 2020 | n/a |
| 2017-11-02 | New taxonomic reference entry | El-Hennawy, 2017a | n/a |
| 2017-11-02 | Species distribution update | El-Hennawy, 2017a | n/a (Old value) |
| 2015-12-23 | New taxonomic reference entry | Fedoriak, 2015 | n/a |
| 2015-09-22 | Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon | Huber, 2011b | Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Pholcus manueli Gertsch, 1937 |
| 2015-03-24 | New taxonomic reference entry | Fedoriak & Moscaliuc, 2013 | n/a |