Taxon details
Physocyclus globosus (Taczanowski, 1874)
- Rank: Species (Genus type)
- Status: accepted
- Described:
- Last updated: 2024-09-08
- LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:003781]
- Distribution: North America. Introduced to Africa, Czechia, Iran, Sri Lanka, China, Japan, Philippines, Indonesia, Australia, Pacific islands, Galapagos
- External Resources *:
- Holotype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019); Pholcophora juruensis Mello-Leitão, 1922, (00844); 1 m (destroyed by the fire 2018)
- Holotype: Museo del Instituto de Zoología Agrícola (MIZA), Universidad Central de Venezuela, Maracay, Venezuela; m (105781 = MAGS 1290) of Physocyclus boconoensis (Huber & Villarreal, 2020)
- Paratype: Museo del Instituto de Zoología Agrícola (MIZA), Universidad Central de Venezuela, Maracay, Venezuela; 2f 5j (105781 = MAGS 1290) of Physocyclus boconoensis (Huber & Villarreal, 2020)
- Syntype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019); Physocyclus dubius Mello-Leitão, 1922, (00845); 1 f 2 j (destroyed by the fire 2018)
- Syntype: Museo del Instituto de Zoología Agrícola (MIZA), Universidad Central de Venezuela, Maracay, Venezuela; ~10m ~50f (105786 = MAGS 1208) of Physocyclus borburatensis (Huber & Villarreal, 2020)
- Syntype: Museo del Instituto de Zoología Agrícola (MIZA), Universidad Central de Venezuela, Maracay, Venezuela; 3m 5f 9j (105692 = MAGS 221) of Physocyclus cariacoensis (Huber & Villarreal, 2020)
- Syntype: Museo del Instituto de Zoología Agrícola (MIZA), Universidad Central de Venezuela, Maracay, Venezuela; 3m 2f 10j (105745 = MAGS 95) of Physocyclus guatirensis (Huber & Villarreal, 2020)
- Syntype: Museo del Instituto de Zoología Agrícola (MIZA), Universidad Central de Venezuela, Maracay, Venezuela; remains of some totally destroyed types (105750 = MAGS 846) of Physocyclus monaguensis (Huber & Villarreal, 2020)
Pholcus gibbosus Keyserling, 1877c: 208, pl. 7, f. 2 (Df).
Pholcus claviger Simon, 1878g: 483 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:003686].
Physocyclus globosus Simon, 1893a: 470.
Pholcus gibbosus Workman, 1896: 72, pl. 72 (f).
Decetia incisa O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898a: 234, pl. 29, f. 1 (Df).
Physocyclus globosus F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902a: 368, pl. 34, f. 22-23 (f, Dm).
Physocyclus rotundus F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902a: 369, pl. 35, f. 3-3a (f; misidentified per Valdez-Mondragón, 2010b: 76).
Physocyclus globosus Chamberlin, 1921b: 247, pl. 10, f. 4 (f).
Physocyclus dubius Mello-Leitão, 1922a: 210, f. 2 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:053953].
Pholcophora juruensis Mello-Leitão, 1922a: 210, f. 3-4 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:003662].
Physocyclus globosus Petrunkevitch, 1929b: 141, f. 132-135 (mf).
Physocyclus muricola Badcock, 1932: 7, f. 2 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:003775].
Physocyclus globosus Nakatsudi, 1943a: 152, f. 4a-e (mf).
Physocyclus globosus Mello-Leitão, 1946a: 71 (S of Physocyclus muricola).
Physocyclus globosus Mello-Leitão, 1946b: 33 (S of Physocyclus muricola).
Physocyclus globosus Brignoli, 1981c: 94, f. 14-18, 21-24 (mf).
Physocyclus globosus Yaginuma, 1986a: 31, f. 17.8 (m).
Artema atlanta Feng, 1990: 45, f. 20.1-7 (mf, misidentified).
Physocyclus globosus Huber & Eberhard, 1997: 905, f. 1-3, 5-9 (mf).
Physocyclus globosus Huber, 1998b: 1596, f. 116-119 (mf).
Physocyclus orientalis Zhu & Song, in Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 63, f. 26A-H (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:003789].
Physocyclus globosus Huber, 2000: 149, f. 36, 49, 139, 169 (S of Physocyclus dubius).
Physocyclus globosus Huber & Zhu, 2001: 152 (S of Physocyclus orientalis).
Physocyclus globosus Saaristo, 2001b: 17, f. 23-34 (mf).
Physocyclus boconoensis González-Sponga, 2007: 56, pl. 1, f. 1-9 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:043585].
Physocyclus borburatensis González-Sponga, 2007: 58, pl. 2, f. 1-9 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:043586].
Physocyclus cariacoensis González-Sponga, 2007: 60, pl. 3, f. 1-9 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:043587].
Physocyclus guatirensis González-Sponga, 2007: 62, pl. 4, f. 1-10 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:043588].
Physocyclus monaguensis González-Sponga, 2007: 64, pl. 5, f. 1-9 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:043589].
Physocyclus globosus Beatty, Berry & Huber, 2008: 19, f. 12-14, 44-45 (mf).
Physocyclus globosus Irie, 2009: 111, f. 36-38 (mf).
Physocyclus globosus Huber, 2009a: 66 (S of Physocyclus boconoensis, P. borburatensis, P. cariacoensis, P. guatirensis and P. monaguensis).
Physocyclus globosus Silva-Moreira et al., 2010: 46 (S of Pholcus juruensis, after Huber, 2000: 344).
Physocyclus globosus Saaristo, 2010: 166, f. 25.46-53 (mf).
Physocyclus globosus Valdez-Mondragón, 2010b: 25, f. 42-48 (mf).
Physocyclus globosus Huber, 2011b: 126 (S of Pholcus claviger).
Physocyclus globosus Valdez-Mondragón, 2013b: 186, f. 14-15 (m).
Physocyclus globosus Gómez-Rodríguez et al., 2014: 69, f. 1D (m).
Physocyclus globosus Alcántar-Valenzuela et al., 2024: 12, f. 16-21 (mf).
Alcántar-Valenzuela, J. J., Chamé-Vázquez, D., Jiménez, M.-L. & Castañeda de los Santos, G. (2024). Current knowledge of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Sinaloa, Mexico: species checklist and new records, including the first record of Plexippus petersi Karsch, 1878 for America. Acta Zoológica Mexicana (n. s.) 40(e4012671): 1-27. doi:10.21829/azm.2024.4012671 -- Show included taxa
Badcock, H. D. (1932). Reports of an expedition to Paraguay and Brazil in 1926–7, supported by the Trustees of the Percy Sladen Memorial Fund and the Executive Committee of the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland. Arachnida from the Paraguayan Chaco. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 38(257): 1-48. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1932.tb00987.x -- Show included taxa
Beatty, J. A., Berry, J. W. & Huber, B. A. (2008). The pholcid spiders of Micronesia and Polynesia (Araneae, Pholcidae). Journal of Arachnology 36(1): 1-25. doi:10.1636/H05-66.1 -- Show included taxa
Brignoli, P. M. (1981c). Studies on the Pholcidae, I. Notes on the genera Artema and Physocyclus (Araneae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 170: 90-100. -- Show included taxa
Chamberlin, R. V. (1921b). On some arachnids from southern Utah. The Canadian Entomologist 53(11): 245-247. doi:10.4039/Ent53245-11 -- Show included taxa
Feng, Z. Q. (1990). Spiders of China in colour. Hunan Science and Technology Publishing House, 256 pp. -- Show included taxa
Gómez-Rodríguez, J. F., Montaño, H., Ibarra-Núñez, G. & Salazar O., C. A. (2014). Arácnidos (excepto ácaros) de Tamaulipas: listado actualizado y algunos registros nuevos. In: Correa S., A., Horta V., J. V., García J., J. & Barrientos L., L. (eds.) Biodiversidad Tamaulipeca Vol. 2, Núm. 2. Tecnológico Nacional de México - Instituto Tecnológico de Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, México, pp. 51-57, 64-74. -- Show included taxa
González-Sponga, M. A. (2007). Biodiversidad. Arácnidos de Venezuela. Descripción de cinco nuevas especies del género Physocyclus (Araneae pholcidae [sic]). Sapiens. Revista Universitaria de Investigación 8: 53-69. -- Show included taxa
Huber, B. A. & Eberhard, W. G. (1997). Courtship, copulation, and genital mechanics in Physocyclus globosus (Araneae, Pholcidae). Canadian Journal of Zoology 74(6): 905-918. doi:10.1139/z97-109 -- Show included taxa
Huber, B. (1998b). The pholcid spiders of Costa Rica (Araneae: Pholcidae). Revista de Biología Tropical 45: 1583-1634. -- 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 -- Show included taxa
Huber, B. A. & Zhu, M. S. (2001). On Taczanowski's pholcids, with three new synonymies in Pholcidae (Araneae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 12: 151-152. -- Show included taxa
Huber, B. A. (2009a). Four new generic and 14 new specific synonymies in Pholcidae, and transfer of Pholcoides Roewer to Filistatidae (Araneae). Zootaxa 1970: 64-68, 1977: 68. , 10.11646/zootaxa.1997.1.6 doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1970.1.3 -- 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
Irie, T. (2009). Pholcidae. In: Ono, H. (ed.) The spiders of Japan with keys to the families and genera and illustrations of the species. Tokai University Press, Kanagawa, pp. 106-111. -- Show included taxa
Keyserling, E. (1877c). Amerikanische Spinnenarten aus den Familien der Pholcoidae, Scytodoidae und Dysderoidae. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 27: 205-234. -- Show included taxa
Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1922a). Quelques araignées nouvelles ou peu connues du Bresil. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 91: 209-228. -- Show included taxa
Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1946a). Notas sobre os Filistatidae e Pholcidae. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 18: 39-83. -- Show included taxa
Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1946b). Arañas del Paraguay. Notas del Museo de la Plata 11(Zool. 91): 17-50. -- Show included taxa
Nakatsudi, K. (1943a). Some Arachnida from Micronesia. Journal of Agricultural Science Tokyo Nogyo Daigaku 2: 147-180, pl. 12-14. -- Show included taxa
Petrunkevitch, A. (1929b). The spiders of Porto Rico. Part one. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 30: 1-158. -- Show included taxa
Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1898a). Arachnida. Araneida. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London 1, 233-288, pl. 29-39. [for the exact dates see Lyal, 2011] -- Show included taxa
Pickard-Cambridge, F. O. (1902a). Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London 2, 313-424. [for the exact dates see Lyal, 2011] -- Show included taxa
Saaristo, M. I. (2001b). Pholcid spiders of the granitic Seychelles (Araneae, Pholcidae). Phelsuma 9: 9-28. -- Show included taxa
Saaristo, M. I. (2010). Araneae. In: Gerlach, J. & Marusik, Y. M. (eds.) Arachnida and Myriapoda of the Seychelles islands. Siri Scientific Press, Manchester, pp. 8-306. -- Show included taxa
Silva-Moreira, T., Baptista, R. L. C., Kury, A. B., Giupponi, A. P. L., Buckup, E. H. & Brescovit, A. D. (2010). Annotated check list of Arachnida type specimens deposited in the Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro. II–Araneae. Zootaxa 2588: 1-91. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2588.1.1 -- Show included taxa
Simon, E. (1878g). Étude sur les arachnides du Congo (suite) (1). Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France 2(6, 1877): 482-485. [year corrected per Frétey, 2023: 8] -- Show included taxa
Simon, E. (1893a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome premier. Roret, Paris, pp. 257-488. [second pdf with detailed publication dates of the single parts] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973 -- Show included taxa
Song, D. X., Zhu, M. S. & Chen, J. (1999). The spiders of China. Hebei Science and Technology Publishing House, Shijiazhuang, 640 pp. -- Show included taxa
Taczanowski, L. (1874). Les aranéides de la Guyane française. Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicae 10: 56-115, pl. 2. -- Show included taxa
Valdez-Mondragón, A. (2010b). Revisión taxonómica de Physocyclus Simon, 1893 (Araneae: Pholcidae), con la descripción de especies nuevas de México. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 18: 3-80. -- Show included taxa
Valdez-Mondragón, A. (2013b). Morphological phylogenetic analysis of the spider genus Physocyclus (Araneae: Pholcidae). Journal of Arachnology 41: 184-196. doi:10.1636/k12-33.1 -- Show included taxa
Workman, T. (1896). Malaysian spiders. Belfast, pp. 25-104. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.101972 -- Show included taxa
Yaginuma, T. (1986a). Spiders of Japan in color (new ed.). Hoikusha Publishing Co., Osaka, 305 pp., 64 pls. -- Show included taxa
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Date | Type | Reference | Detail |
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2024-09-08 | New taxonomic reference entry | Alcántar-Valenzuela et al., 2024 | n/a |
2022-06-14 | Species distribution update | Huber & Acurio, 2022 | n/a (Old value) |
2019-01-23 | Species distribution update | Huber, 2019 | n/a (Old value) |
2018-09-20 | Species distribution update | n/a (Old value) | |
2015-09-21 | New taxonomic reference entry | Gómez-Rodríguez et al., 2014 | n/a |