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Pholcidae  C. L. Koch, 1850 / Artema  Walckenaer, 1837   4 species

Artema nephilit Aharon, Huber & Gavish-Regev, 2017

Description
Additional information

Troglophile species (Mammola et al., 2022)

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, Israel, Jordan, Yemen?, United Arab Emirates?
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Distribution List
Cyprus   (Bosmans et al., 2019c) ||| Greece   (Aharon et al., 2017) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2025a; Aharon et al., 2017) |||
References

Aharon S, Huber B A, Gavish-Regev E (2017) Daddy-long-leg giants: revision of the spider genus Artema Walckenaer, 1837 (Araneae, Pholcidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 376: 1-57 pdf

Bosmans R, Van Keer J, Russell-Smith A, Hadjiconstantis M, Komnenov M, Bosselaers J, Huber S, McCowan D, Snazell R, Decae A, Zoumides C, Kielhorn K-H, Oger P (2019c) Spiders of Cyprus (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from Cyprus. Newsletter of the Belgian Arachnological Society 34, Suppl. 1: 1-173 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

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 (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
17-11-2024 Distribution update Detail
07-01-2019 Image insert