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Genus of spiders

Holocnemus
A marbled cellar spider (Holocnemus pluchei) carrying prey
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Pholcidae
Subfamily: Holocneminae
Genus: Holocnemus
Simon, 1873
Type species
H. pluchei
(Scopoli, 1763)
Species

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Holocnemus is a genus of cellar spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1873.

Species

As of February 2022, the World Spider Catalog accepts four species, found only in Africa and Europe:

  • H. caudatus (Dufour, 1820) – Spain, Andorra
  • H. hispanicus Wiehle, 1933 – Portugal, Spain
  • H. pluchei (Scopoli, 1763) – Europe, North Africa, Turkey, Caucasus, Middle East. Introduced to USA, Argentina, Japan, Australia
  • H. reini (C. Koch, 1873) – Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia

See also

References

  1. ^ "Gen. Holocnemus Simon, 1873". World Spider Catalog Version 23.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2022. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 24 February 2022.
  2. Simon, E. (1873). "Aranéides nouveaux ou peu connus du midi de l'Europe. (2e mémoire)". Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège. 5 (2): 187–351.

External links

Media related to Holocnemus at Wikimedia Commons

Taxon identifiers
Holocnemus


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