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The pholcid spiders of Argentina

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AutorInnen: 
Huber BA
Erscheinungsjahr: 
2014
Vollständiger Titel: 
Pholcidae. In: Biodiversidad de Artrópodos Argentinos, Vol. 3
ZFMK-Autorinnen / ZFMK-Autoren: 
Dr. Bernhard A. Huber
Org. Einordnung: 
Arachnida
Publikationstyp: 
Beitrag zu Sammelwerk
Bibliographische Angaben: 
Huber BA. 2014. Pholcidae. In: Biodiversidad de Artrópodos Argentinos, Vol. 3 (eds. S. Roig-Juñent, L.E. Claps, J.J. Morrone), pp. 131-140. Sociedad Entomológica Argentina.
Abstract: 

The spider family Pholcidae currently includes some 1100 described species, most of which occur in tropical and subtropical regions around the world. The diversity in Argentina is relatively low and largely concentrated in the northeast, but some species occur at high altitudes in the Andes and as far south as Río Negro and Chubut. Both the highest record worldwide (~3900 m in Jujuy) and the most southern record (42.5°S in Chubut) are newly documented for Argentina. A total of 34 pholcid species are available in the collections studied or have credibly been cited for Argentina. From these, almost a dozen species remain undescribed and six are introduced synanthropic species. Four genera (two of them undescribed) and 21 species are currently known only from Argentina. This chapter gives a general introduction to pholcid systematics and biology, outlines the biogeography of the family in Argentina, and provides a key to all known Argentinean genera, an annotated list of species with geo-referenced locality data, and distribution maps for all indigenous species.