Six eyes (anterior median eyes absent)

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Eight eyes

  4  

Prosoma with median furrow, eye triads on median turret, very high in males

Modisimus

Prosoma without median furrow; eye triads on very low humps

  3  

Male paracymbium (procursus) with ventral flap; posterior epigynal plate without pockets

Spermophora

Male paracymbium (procursus) without ventral flap; posterior epigynal plate with pair of pockets

Spermophorides

Prosoma evenly domed, without median furrow or pit

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Prosoma with median furrow or pit

  6  

Small species (body length 3 mm) with globose opisthosoma, procursus (= paracymbium) of the male palp with long dorsal process, female genitalia with frontal arc-shaped structure visible through cuticle

Micropholcus

Larger species (body length 5-9 mm) with cylindrical opisthosoma. Anterior median eyes between the anterior lateral eyes; head part slightly elevated

Pholcus

Small species (body length 3 mm), prosoma with median furrow

Psilochorus

Larger (body length 5-10 mm), prosoma with median pit

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Opisthosoma higher than long

Artema

Opisthosoma longer than high

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Legs with many small black spots/lines

  9  

Legs without small black spots/lines

  10  

Opisthosoma pointed dorso-posteriorly, male chelicerae with two pairs of frontal apophyses

Crossopriza

Opisthosoma rounded dorso-posteriorly, male chelicerae with single pair of frontal apophyses

Holocnemus

Male chelicerae frontally with many modified (club-shaped) hairs

Stygopholcus

Male chelicerae frontally with apophyses provided with 1-3 modified hairs each

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Male femora 1 with ventral spines, epigynum roughly triangular

Hoplopholcus

Male femora 1 without spines, epigynum roughly rectangular

Smeringopus