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Micropholcus
Micropholcus is a genus of long legged, relatively fragile, so-called cellar spiders of the family Pholcidae. The type species M. fauroti was first described by Simon in 1887. The genus has a pantropical distribution. Micropholcus accepted a number of transfers from genus Leptopholcus in 2014, increasing its number of species to 15.
17 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Tropical Cellar Spider
speciesMicropholcus fauroti
Micropholcus dalei
speciesMicropholcus dalei
Micropholcus delicatulus
speciesMicropholcus delicatulus
Micropholcus jamaica
speciesMicropholcus jamaica
Micropholcus evaluna
speciesMicropholcus evaluna
Micropholcus brazlandia
speciesMicropholcus brazlandia
Micropholcus crato
speciesMicropholcus crato
Micropholcus pataxo
speciesMicropholcus pataxo
Micropholcus piaui
speciesMicropholcus piaui
Micropholcus piracuruca
speciesMicropholcus piracuruca
Micropholcus ubajara
speciesMicropholcus ubajara
Micropholcus baoruco
speciesMicropholcus baoruco
Micropholcus hispaniola
speciesMicropholcus hispaniola
Micropholcus toma
speciesMicropholcus toma
Micropholcus jacominae
speciesMicropholcus jacominae
Micropholcus tegulifer
speciesMicropholcus tegulifer
Micropholcus agadir
speciesMicropholcus agadir
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 250036.