Old World Micropholcus spiders, with first records of acrocerid parasitoids in Pholcidae (Araneae).

ABSTRACT: Micropholcus Deeleman-Reinhold & Prinsen, 1987 is one of only two Pholcidae genera known to occur both in the Old and New Worlds. However, there are major morphological and ecological differences among geographically separate groups of species, and it was mainly molecular data that have resulted in our current view of uniting all these species into a single genus. In the Old World, only four species have previously been described. Here, current knowledge about Old World Micropholcus is reviewed, redescribing three of the four previously known species, and describing twelve new species, originating from Saudi Arabia (M.dhahran Huber, sp. nov., M.harajah Huber, sp. nov., M.alfara Huber, sp. nov., M.abha Huber, sp. nov.,

SUBMITTER: Huber BA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11450384 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature