Bukit Timah Forest Daddy-long-legs
This six-eyed pholcid was named after Bukit Timah as the first described specimens were collected at the Dairy Farm Nature Park, one of the buffer parks fringing the Bukit Timah Nature Reserve.
In both sexes, the carapace has a forward-pointing V marking. In the female, the clypeus and ocular area between the two eye triads are darkened. Against this background, there is black pigmentation around the vestigial AME area (non-functional eye spots without lenses).
The male is characterised by having the two triads on stalks. an elongated abdomen with a posterior end that is slightly pointed or elevated dorsally, and other features on the chelicerae and male palps visible only under a microscope.
| Length | ♀ 4 mm; ♂ 4 mm |
| Type Locality | Dairy Farm Nature Park, Singapore |
| Distribution | Singapore. |
| Habitat | On the floor of primary and secondary forests.Photo credit (bottom left; upper & lower right):♀♂ |
| Biology | Build a domed web suspended a short distance below the underside of large dead leaves lying loosely on the ground. |
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Chelicerata (Chelicerates)
Class Arachnida (Arachnids)
Order Araneae (Spiders)
Suborder Araneomorphae (Typical Spiders)
Holotype
Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig (ZFMK), Bonn, Germany (data base search of type material, 18.01.2019); ♂ (Ar15706)
Pholcus bukittimah (Original description ♂♀)
Huber, in Huber et al., 2016b New leaf- and litter-dwelling species of the genus Pholcus from Southeast Asia (Araneae, Pholcidae): 18, f. 59-62, 67-71, 79, 87-89 doi:10.5852/ejt.2016.200
Tissahamia bukittimah (Transferred from Pholcus)
Huber, Eberle & Dimitrov, 2018 The phylogeny of pholcid spiders: a critical evaluation of relationships suggested by molecular data (Araneae, Pholcidae): 86 doi:10.3897/zookeys.789.22781
* Retrieved from the World Spider Catalog.
Singapore.