Multi-spotted Leaf Litter Pholcid
In both sexes, this eight-eyed pholcid may be recognised by a number of features on the carapace: three pairs of dark spots, a deep Y-shaped furrow. and a darkly coloured cephalic region. The male has a two-horned extension from the male clypeus, in front of a massive pair of chelicerae with ridges and outgrowths.
Length | ♀ 2 mm; ♂ 2 mm |
Type Locality | Bogor, West Java, Indonesia |
Distribution | Singapore, Malaysia (Sabah), Indonesia (West Java, Central Sulawesi, Bali), Sri Lanka. |
Habitat | Leaf litter in secondary forest. |
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Chelicerata (Chelicerates)
Class Arachnida (Arachnids)
Order Araneae (Spiders)
Suborder Araneomorphae (Typical Spiders)
Syntype
Zoologisches Museum Hamburg (ZMH), Hamburg, Germany (data base search of type material, 11.02.2019); ♀ (A0002276)
Psilochorus multiguttatus (Original description j)
Holocneminus multiguttatus (Original description ♂♀, Transferred from Psilochorus)
Deeleman-Reinhold, 1995b Redescription of Holocneminus multiguttatus Simon and description of two new species of pholcid spiders from Australia (Arachnida: Araneae: Pholcidae): 34, f. 1-8
Holocneminus multiguttatus
Huber, 2000 New World pholcid spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae): A revision at generic level: 43, f doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2000)254<0001:NWPSAP>2.0.CO;2
* Retrieved from the World Spider Catalog.
Singapore, Malaysia (Sabah), Indonesia (West Java, Central Sulawesi, Bali), Sri Lanka.