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

Hoplopholcus patrizii (Roewer, 1962)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:003417

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Description
Male

Prosoma 1.8 mm long. Chelicerae with a frontal apophysis bearing 3 teeth.

Body length male: 5 mm
Female

Prosoma and appendages pale yellowish, sternum brown. Prosoma 1.4-1.9 mm long. Opisthosoma pale yellowish grey, dorsally with 3 pairs of oblique, black streaks, ventrally, in front of spinnerets, with a small tuft of short, black hairs.

Body length female: 5.4-6.2 mm
Additional information

In caves.

Troglophile species (Mammola et al., 2022)

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Turkey
Phenology
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
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Figures
species

male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Gasparo 2002)

species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Gasparo 2002)

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male Pedipalp, dorsal view
(Huber 2020)

species

male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Huber 2020)

species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Huber 2020)

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male Bulbus, dorsal view
(Huber 2020)

species

male Bulbus, prolateral view
(Huber 2020)

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male Bulbus, retrolateral view
(Huber 2020)

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male Bulbus, ventral view
(Huber 2020)

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male Procursus, retrolateral view
(Gasparo 2002)

species

male Procursus, prolateral view
(Huber 2020)

species

male Procursus, retrolateral view
(Huber 2020)

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male Chelicera, anterior view
(Gasparo 2002)

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male Chelicera, lateral view
(Huber 2020)

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male Chelicerae, frontal view
(Huber 2020)

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female Epigyne
(Brignoli 1972b)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Gasparo 2002)

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female Epigyne
(Huber 2020)

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female Epigyne
(Huber 2020)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Brignoli 1978a)

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female Vulva, ventral view
(Brignoli 1978a)

species

female Vulva, dorsal view
(Brignoli 1972b)

species

female Vulva, dorsal view
(Gasparo 2002)

species

female Vulva, dorsal view
(Huber 2020)

species

female Vulva, dorsal view
(Huber 2020)

species

female Vulva, ventral view
(Huber 2020)

Distribution List
Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2025a) |||
References

Brignoli P M (1972b) Terzo contributo alla conoscenza dei ragni cavernicoli di Turchia (Araneae). Fragmenta Entomologica 8: 161-190 pdf

Brignoli P M (1978a) Ragni di Turchia V. Specie nuove o interesanti, cavernicole ed epigee, di varie famiglie (Araneae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 85: 461-541 pdf

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2025a) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2025 [last updated 01 December 2025], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info pdf

Gasparo F (2002) Notes on Hoplopholcus patrizii (Roewer, 1962), with description of the male (Araneae, Pholcidae). Bollettino del Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali di Torino 19: 291-296 pdf

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

Mammola S, Pavlek M, Huber B A, Isaia M, 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

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.5.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
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