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Pholcidae  C. L. Koch, 1850 / Micropholcus  Deeleman-Reinhold & Prinsen, 1987   5 species

Micropholcus fauroti  (Simon, 1887)

Description
Male

8 eyes. Pale. Thoracic groove shallow, inconspicuous. Legs long, femur I about 2x body length. Male procursus with characteristic dorsal projection.

Body length male: 2.4 mm
Female

8 eyes. Thoracic groove shallow, inconspicuous. Legs long, femur I about 1.5 times body length. Epigyne: Unsclerotized, with distinctive internal crescentshaped structure visible through cuticle anteriorly.

Body length female: 2.7 mm
Additional information

Often in and on buildings.

This species of Asian (Middle East) origin is not native to Europe (alien species). It had been introduced into Europe and did establish.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Temperate Asia. Introduced to both Americas, St. Helena, Belgium, Germany, Africa, Middle East, India, Sri Lanka, Southeast Asia, Australia, Pacific Is.
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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.

Belgium   (Van Keer & Van Keer, 2001; Bosmans & Van Keer, 2017) ||| Germany   (Huber et al., 2017) ||| Libya   (Zavattari, 1934) |||
References

Bosmans R, Van Keer K (2017) Een herziene soortenlijst van de Belgische spinnen (Araneae). Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 32: 39-69 pdf

Huber B A (2011) Revision and cladistic analysis of Pholcus and closely related taxa (Araneae, Pholcidae). Bonner Zoologische Monographien 58: 1-509 pdf

Huber B A, Meng G L (2024) Old World Micropholcus spiders, with first records of acrocerid parasitoids in Pholcidae (Araneae). ZooKeys 1213: 95-182 pdf

Huber B A, Neumann J, Grabolle A, Hula V (2017) Aliens in Europe: updates on the distributions of Modisimus culicinus and Micropholcus fauroti (Araneae, Pholcidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 53: 12-18 pdf

Sherwood D, Henrard A, Jocqué R, Fowler L, Marusik Y M, Maddison W, Harvey M S, Hormiga G, Rheims C A, Piacentini L N, Peters M, Stevens N, Joshua D, Scipio-O’Dean C J, Ellick G, Wilkins V, Ashmole M, Ashmole P (2024b) Annotated checklist of the spiders of Saint Helena, with new records, descriptions of unknown sexes, new and restored genera, and two new species (Araneae: Araneomorphae). Arachnology 19: 1218-1291 pdf

Van Keer K, Van Keer J (2001) Ingeburgerde exotische trilspinnen (Araneae: Pholcidae) in Antwerpse haven en enkele algemene bedenkingen bij spinnenmigratie. Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 16: 81-86 pdf

Vishnudas E H, Sudhikumar A V (2021) First report of the small daddy long leg spider Micropholcus fauroti (Simon, 1887) (Araneae: Pholcidae) female from India with redescription of the male. Serket 18: 59-63 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

Zavattari E (1934) Prodromo della Fauna della Libia. Pavia, 1234 pp. (Araneae, pp.144-168)

Updates
07-11-2024 Image insert
27-09-2024 Image insert
26-09-2024 Distribution update Detail
12-11-2021 Image insert
02-05-2020 Distribution update Detail
27-01-2017 Datasheet update Detail
27-01-2017 Distribution update Detail
28-10-2016 Distribution update Detail