Holocnemus

Holocnemus is a genus of cellar spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1873.[1][2]

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[1]
Type species
H. pluchei
(Scopoli, 1763)
Species

See text.

Species

As of February 2022, the World Spider Catalog accepts four species, found only in Africa and Europe:[1]

  • 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

Media related to Holocnemus at Wikimedia Commons

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.


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