Micropholcus

Micropholcus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Pholcidae
Genus:	Micropholcus Deeleman-Reinhold & Prinsen, 1987[1]
Type species
M. fauroti (Simon, 1887)
Species
17, see text
Synonyms[1]
Mariguitaia González-Sponga, 2004[2]

Micropholcus is a genus of cellar spiders that was first described by Christa Laetitia Deeleman-Reinhold & J. D. Prinsen in 1987.[3]

Species

It accepted a number of transfers from genus Leptopholcus in 2014, increasing its number of species to 15. As of November 2021^[update] it contains 17 species, with a pantropical distribution:[1]

• Micropholcus agadir (Huber, 2011) – Morocco
• Micropholcus baoruco (Huber, 2006) – Hispaniola
• Micropholcus brazlandia (Huber, Pérez & Baptista, 2005) – Brazil
• Micropholcus crato Huber, Carvalho & Benjamin, 2014 – Brazil
• Micropholcus dalei (Petrunkevitch, 1929) – Puerto Rico, Virgin Is.
• Micropholcus delicatulus (Franganillo, 1930) – Cuba
• Micropholcus evaluna (Huber, Pérez & Baptista, 2005) – Venezuela
• Micropholcus fauroti (Simon, 1887) (type) – Temperate Asia. Introduced to both Americas, Belgium, Germany, Africa, Sri Lanka, Southeast Asia, Australia, Pacific Is.
• Micropholcus hispaniola (Huber, 2000) – Hispaniola
• Micropholcus jacominae Deeleman-Reinhold & van Harten, 2001 – Yemen
• Micropholcus jamaica (Huber, 2000) – Jamaica
• Micropholcus pataxo (Huber, Pérez & Baptista, 2005) – Brazil
• Micropholcus piaui Huber, Carvalho & Benjamin, 2014 – Brazil
• Micropholcus piracuruca Huber, Carvalho & Benjamin, 2014 – Brazil
• Micropholcus tegulifer (Barrientos, 2019) – Morocco
• Micropholcus toma (Huber, 2006) – Hispaniola
• Micropholcus ubajara Huber, Carvalho & Benjamin, 2014 – Brazil

See also

• List of Pholcidae species

References

1. Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Micropholcus Deeleman-Reinhold & Prinsen, 1987". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-04.
2. Huber, B. A. (2009). "Four new generic and 14 new specific synonymies in Pholcidae, and transfer of Pholcoides Roewer to Filistatidae (Araneae)". Zootaxa. 1970: 66. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1970.1.3.
3. Deeleman-Reinhold, C. L.; Prinsen, J. D. (1987). "Micropholcus fauroti (Simon) n. comb., a pantropical, synanthropic spider (Araneae: Pholcidae)". Entomologische Berichten, Amsterdam. 47: 73–77.