Pholcidae  C. L. Koch, 1850 / Stygopholcus  Kratochvíl, 1932   4 species

Stygopholcus photophilus  Senglet, 1971

Description
Male

Palp very massive, orange-brownish, femur broader than long. Prosoma 1.6 mm long. Colouration as in female. Eyes: 2 long bristles between lateral and median posterior eyes. Chelicerae anteriorly with 30 to 34 club-like setae.

Female

Prosoma 1.6 mm long. Prosoma: thoracic part white yellowish with a median brown streak, cephalic part brownish. Sternum dark brown, wider than long. Eyes: posterior row very recurved. Legs light brownish, femur and tibia with annulations. Opisthosoma oval, less than twice as long as high, mottled, ventrally with a median darker streak. Spinnerets ringed with black.

Additional information

Under rocks and treestumps, in caves.

Troglophile species (Mammola et al. 2018b)

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Albania, Greece (incl. Crete)
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.

Albania   (Deltshev et al., 2011b; Huber et al., 2021) ||| Greece   (Huber et al., 2021) ||| Greece / Crete   (Huber et al., 2021) |||
References

Deltshev C, Vrenozi B, Blagoev G, Lazarov S (2011b) Spiders of Albania – faunistic and zoogeographical review (Arachnida: Araneae). Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 63: 125-144 pdf

Huber B A, Pavlek M, Komnenov M (2021) Revision of the spider genus Stygopholcus (Araneae, Pholcidae), endemic to the Balkan Peninsula. European Journal of Taxonomy 752: 1-60 pdf

Mammola S, Cardoso P, Ribera C, Pavlek M, Isaia M (2018b) A synthesis on cave-dwelling spiders in Europe. Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 56: 301-316 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
17-06-2021 Image insert
15-06-2021 Distribution update Detail
04-12-2013 Distribution update Detail
04-12-2013 Image insert