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Pholcidae  C. L. Koch, 1850 / Quamtana  Huber, 2003   3 species

Quamtana mabusai Huber, 2003

Description
Additional information

Only figs. by Huber et al. (2015), because Q. mabusai s.str. is not known from Europe.

This species of African origin is not native to Europe (alien species). It had been introduced to Europe at least once and did establish.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: From Germany as Quamtana sp. B resp. Quamtana sp. ZFMK Ar 12707 aff. mabusai, from France by Mathy et al. (2026)
Global distribution (WSC 2026): South Africa, Eswatini
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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.

References

Huber B A, Szymański H, Bennett-West A (2024) Progress or burden? Formal description of every apparently new species available in collections is neither necessary nor useful. ZooKeys 1214: 77-90 pdf

Huber B, Neumann J, Rehfeldt S, Grabolle A, Reiser N (2015) Back in Europe: Quamtana spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae) in Germany. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 50: 51-56 pdf

Mathy V, Claivaz L, Dutrey D (2026) Premières observations françaises d’une espèce non décrite appartenant au genre Quamtana Huber, 2003 (Araneae: Pholcidae). Revue Arachnologique (2) 12: 12-16 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
10-02-2026 Datasheet update Detail
03-10-2024 Image insert
02-10-2024 Datasheet update Detail