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Pholcidae  C. L. Koch, 1850 / Holocnemus  Simon, 1873   4 species

Holocnemus hispanicus Wiehle, 1933

Description
Male

Chelicerae subapically with an obtuse process. Legs: femur I with about 20 ventral spines.

Female

Palp with darker tarsus. Prosoma 1.7 mm long. Eyes: PME not contiguous to PLE, PME about 0.5 diameter from PLE. Legs: femur and tibia apically lighter, claws with 6 or 7 teeth. Opisthosoma posteriorly in the shape of a long tubercle. Opisthosoma yellow-grey, ventrally dark brown to black.

Distribution
  Presence
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Global distribution (WSC 2026): Portugal, Spain
Phenology
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Distribution List
Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) |||
References

Benhadi-Marín J, Barrientos J A , Ferrández M A, Henriques S, Morano E (2013) Second annotated list of selected spider families (Arachnida: Araneae) held at the University of León (Spain). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 22: 71-78 pdf

Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254 pdf

Breitling R (2020) South European spiders from the Duffey collection in the Manchester Museum (Arachnida: Araneae). Arachnology 18: 333-362 pdf

Cortés-Fossati F, Martín-Rodríguez I (2022) El endemismo Holocnemus hispanicus Wiehle, 1933 (Araneae, Pholcidae), presente en la comunidad de Aragón (España). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 41: 134 pdf

Huber B A (2022) Revisions of Holocnemus and Crossopriza: the spotted-leg clade of Smeringopinae (Araneae, Pholcidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 795: 1-241 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.5.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Wunderlich J (2024) New and already known spiders of seven families of the Algarve, Portugal (Araneida: Araneae). Beiträge zur Araneologie 17: 7-51, 102 pdf

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