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

Pholcus crassipalpis  Spassky, 1937

Description
Male

Prosoma 0.96 mm long.

Female

Prosoma light brownish, with a longitudinal blackish pattern. Prosoma 1.1 mm long. Sternum brownish, with 3 pairs of light spots. Opisthosoma uniformly light greyish.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Bulgaria, Ukraine, Russia (Europe, Caucasus), Turkey, Kazakhstan
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.

Bulgaria   (Dimitrov & Naumova, 2021) ||| Russia, Eastern   (Mikhailov, 2013) ||| Russia, Southern   (Otto, 2022; Ponomarev, 2022) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Topçu & Demircan, 2017) ||| Ukraine   (Kovblyuk & Nadolny, 2011) |||
References

Dimitrov D, Naumova M (2021) A faunistic survey of the spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Sakar Mountain, Bulgaria. Arachnology 18: 689-699 pdf

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

Kovblyuk M M, Nadolny A A (2011) Redescription of a little-known species, Pholcus crassipalpis Spassky, 1937 (Aranei: Pholcidae). Arthropoda Selecta 20: 267-272 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.

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

Topçu A, Demircan N (2017) A new record of genus Pholcus from Turkey (Araneae: Pholcidae). Serket 15: 157-158 pdf

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

Updates
16-02-2023 Distribution update Detail
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