Pholcidae  C. L. Koch, 1850 / Hoplopholcus  Kulczyński, 1908   16 species

Hoplopholcus minous  Senglet, 1971

Description
Male

Prosoma 1.5 mm long. Colouration as in female. Femur I with a ventral series of 23 to 25 short spines.

Female

Prosoma: thoracic part white yellowish with a median brownish streak, cephalic part brownish. Prosoma 1.4 mm long. Sternum blackish, lighter on the edges. Chelicerae brownish. Legs brownish with faint annulations. Opisthosoma very high, greyish, mottled on the top and with chevrons posteriorly.

Additional information

In house, also outdoor: between root on banks of dry brook, in ditch.

Troglophile species (Mammola et al., 2022)

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Greece (incl. Crete), Turkey
Phenology
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Figures
Distribution List

"No references" does not mean that the species does not occur in this country, but that we have not yet inserted the reference for it. We are working on it.

Greece   (Huber, 2020) ||| Greece / Crete   (Huber, 2020) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2024; Huber, 2020) |||
References

Brignoli P M (1976b) Ragni di Grecia IX. Specie nuove o interessanti delle famiglie Leptonetidae, Dysderidae, Pholcidae ed Agelenidae (Araneae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 83: 539-578 pdf

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2024) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2024 [last updated 01 January 2024], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info pdf

Huber B (2020) Revision of the spider genus Hoplopholcus Kulczyński (Araneae, Pholcidae). Zootaxa 4726: 1-94 pdf

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 pdf

Mammola S, Pavlek M, Huber B A, Ballarin F, Tolve M, Čupić I, Hesselberg T, Lunghi E, Mouron S, Graco-Roza C, Cardoso P (2022) A trait database and updated checklist for European subterranean spiders. Scientific Data 9(236): 1-13 pdf

Senglet A (1971) Note sur les Pholcidae (Arachn.) de Grèce. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 44: 345-359 pdf

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.01.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
21-12-2020 Image insert
21-12-2020 Distribution update Detail
10-12-2013 Image insert