Pholcus

• Manuel's Cellar Spider Pholcus manueli

  

  Recorded widely in Asia and the United States, females of this spider have slightly more closely spaced eye groups than males.

• Pholcus alticeps

  This spider is known from Poland to Iran and the Omsk region of Russia.

• Pholcus amani

  This spider has been found in forest at Amani in Tanzania’s East Usambara Mountains.

• Pholcus ancoralis

  This spider is widespread on Pacific islands, and males have a pair of horn-like projections between the two eye groups.

• Pholcus arayat

  Known from Luzon, this spider has projections bearing dense hair brushes between the male eye groups.

• Pholcus arkit

  Known from Central Asia, males of this spider have a more elevated eye region than the similar Pholcus ponticus.

• Pholcus attuleh

  Known from Cameroon, females of this spider have a less dark eye region and more closely spaced eye groups than males.

• Pholcus baguio

  The male ocular area is raised, with each eye triad on a short additional hump directed laterally. The male carapace has no median furrow. The male sternum is wider than long. Spiders were found among rocks and shaded vegetation in a dry brook bed near the road, in extremely high densities in some places. Individual domed sheets connected into communal webs up to 2 m long. It is known from the Baguio area of Luzon, Philippines.

• Pholcus baka

  Known from Cameroon and Gabon, this spider includes males with an unpatterned abdomen.

• Pholcus bamboutos

  This Cameroonian spider has been found among rocks and in montane forest.

• Pholcus batepa

  Males have two pairs of distal cheliceral projections, and this spider has been found in tunnels and other localities on São Tomé.

• Pholcus bicornutus

  Known from Luzon, this spider has horn-like projections with hair brushes between the male eye groups.

• Manuel's Cellar Spider Pholcus manueli

  Recorded widely in Asia and the United States, females of this spider have slightly more closely spaced eye groups than males.