Pholcus phungiformes Oliger 1983

Pholcus phungiformes species-group Diagnosis. THIS SPECIES-GROUP CAN BE DISTINGUISHED FROM All KNOWN CONGENERS BY THE COMBINATION OF THE FOllOWING CHARACTERS: EIGHT EYES; CARAPACE WITH RADIATING MARKS; OPISTHOSOMA CYlINDRICAl; MAlE CHElICERAE USUAllY WITH FRONTAl APOPHYSES; MAlE PEDIPAlPAl TIBIA WITH A PROlATERO-VENTRAl PROJECTION; PROCURSUS USUAllY WITH DORSAl SPINES; APPENDIX ABSENT, SOMETIMES WITH A ���PSEUDO-APPENDIX���; EPIGYNUM HEAVIlY SClEROTIZED, WITH A ���KNOB��� (HUBER 2011B). Composition. THE SPECIES-GROUP NOW CONTAINS 50 SPECIES AND IS lARGElY RESTRICTED TO NORTHEASTERN CHINA AND THE KOREAN PENINSUlA. OF THESE, ONE SPECIES IS NEWlY DESCRIBED: P. ningan YAO & LI sp. nov., FIVE SPECIES ORIGINAllY NOT ASSIGNED TO ANY EXISTING SPECIES-GROUP ARE ASSIGNED TO THE SPECIES-GROUP: P. brevis YAO & LI, 2012, P. decorus YAO & LI, 2012, P. lexuancanhi YAO, PHAM & LI, 2012, P. tongi YAO & LI, 2012 AND P. wangi YAO & LI, 2012.
Published as part of Zhu, Keli, Yao, Zhiyuan, Bai, Xiujuan & Li, Shuqiang, 2018, Five new species of the spider genus Pholcus Walckenaer, 1805 (Araneae: Pholcidae) from China and Thailand, pp. 235-253 in Zootaxa 4377 (2) on page 243, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4377.2.5, http://zenodo.org/record/1163911
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