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 2026): Germany to Ukraine, Russia (Europe to West Siberia), Caucasus, Iran, Tadjikistan
Phenology
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Distribution List
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 (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) 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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