Pholcidae  C. L. Koch, 1850 / Pholcus  Walckenaer, 1805   15 species

Pholcus alticeps  Spassky, 1932

Description
Male

Prosoma ochre-yellow with brown median mark, widened posteriorly. Sternum and legs ochre-yellow. Opisthosoma ochre-grey.

Body length male: 5.0 mm
Female

Colouration as in males

Body length female: 5.0 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Germany to Ukraine, Russia (Europe to West Siberia), Caucasus, Iran, Tadjikistan
Phenology
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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.

Armenia   (Zarikian, 2022a) ||| Azerbaijan   (Otto, 2022) ||| Belarus   (Ivanov, 2013) ||| Czechia   (Hula, 2017; Řezáč et al., 2021; Růžička & Řezáč, 2022a) ||| Georgia   (Otto, 2022) ||| Germany   (Astrin et al., 2016) ||| Hungary   (Szinetár et al., 2020) ||| Poland   (Huber, 2011) ||| Russia, Central   (Huber, 2011; Ponomarev, 2022) ||| Russia, Eastern   (Huber, 2011) ||| Russia, Southern   (Otto, 2022; Ponomarev, 2022) ||| Slovakia   (Szinetár et al., 2020) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Huber, 2011) ||| Ukraine   (Polchaninova & Prokopenko, 2019; Fedoriak et al., 2012; Huber, 2011) |||
References

Astrin J J, Höfer H, Spelda J, Holstein J, Bayer S, Hendrich L, Huber B A, Kielhorn K-H, Krammer H-J, Lemke M, Monje J C, Morinière J, Rulik B, Petersen M, Janssen H, Muster C (2016) Towards a DNA barcode reference database for spiders and harvestmen of Germany. Plos One 11(e0162624): 1-24 pdf

Dolejš P (2017) Revize třesavek Pholcus phalangioides v Národním muzeu [Pholcus phalangioides in the National Museum revised]. Pavouk 43: 5-6 pdf

Fedoriak M, Rudenko S, Iaroshynska O, Zhukovets E (2012) Spiders (Araneae) of Chernivtsi City (Ukraine). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 43: 37-50 pdf

Huber B A (2011) Revision and cladistic analysis of Pholcus and closely related taxa (Araneae, Pholcidae). Bonner Zoologische Monographien 58: 1-509 pdf

Hula V (2017) Nový druh třesavky pro území České republiky, aneb další synantrop za dveřmi (nebo před?). Pavouk 42: 4-6 pdf

Ivanov V V (2013) The checklist of Belarusian spiders (Arachnida, Araneae). Zoology and Ecology 4: 293-311 pdf

Mikhailov K G (2013) The spiders (Arachnida: Aranei) of Russia and adjacent countries: a non-annotated checklist. Arthropoda Selecta, Supplement 3: 1-262 pdf

Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.

Polchaninova N, Prokopenko E (2019) An updated checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Left-Bank Ukraine. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 57: 60-64 & App pdf

Ponomarev A V (2022) Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of the southeast of the Russian Plain: catalogue, the fauna specific features. SSC RAS Publishers, Rostov-on-Don, 640 pp. pdf

Řezáč M, Růžička V, Hula V, Dolanský J, Machač O, Roušar A (2021) Spiders newly observed in Czechia in recent years – overlooked or invasive species? BioInvasions Records 10: 555-566 pdf

Růžička V, Řezáč M (2022a) Seznam pavouků České republiky. List of spiders of the Czech Republic. Online at https://www.arachnology.cz/seznam-pavouku-cr-26.html and https://www.arachnology.cz/en/seznam-pavouku-cr-26.html pdf

Szinetár C, Kovács G, Urák I, Gajdoš P (2020) Synanthropic spider fauna of the Carpathian Basin in the last three decades. Biologica Futura 71: 31-38 pdf

Szymański D (unpubl.) .

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.5. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (31.10.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Zarikian N A (2022a) New records of Araneae from Armenia. Indian Journal of Entomology 84: 757-760 pdf

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