Pholcomma antipodianum

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Araneoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Chelicerata Classis: Arachnida Ordo: Araneae Subordo: Opisthothelae Infraordo: Araneomorphae Taxon: Neocribellatae Series: Entelegynae Superfamilia: Araneoidea

Familia: Theridiidae
Subfamilia: Pholcommatinae
Genus: Pholcomma
Species: Pholcomma antipodianum

Name

• Pholcomma antipodianum (Forster, 1955)
  • Authority for current combination: Levi, 1957: 110
  • Gender: changeable (-us, -um, -a)
  • Primary type: holotype
    • Fixation: designated and presumably unique
    • Description: adult male
    • Repository: MONZ (D.M. 2/955)
  • Type locality: '"Tops" Ringdove Bay, Antipodes Is.'
  • ZooBank: D01EF6B2-EF94-48B1-9A10-32969BAFE7A7

Combinations

• Erigone antipodiana: original combination

Synonyms

• ?Pholcomma hickmani Forster, 1964
  • Authority for synonymy: Forster, 1964: 94 (possible synonymy)

Primary references

• Forster, R.R. 1955: Spiders from the subantarctic islands of New Zealand. Records of the Dominion Museum 2(4): 167–203. Full article on BUGZ (PDF) Reference page. 

References

• Forster, R.R. 1964: The Araneae and Opiliones of the subantarctic islands of New Zealand. Pacific insects monograph, 7: 58–115. BUGZ
• Levi, H.W. 1957: The North American spider genera Paratheridula, Tekellina, Pholcomma and Archerius (Araneae: Theridiidae). Transactions of American Microscopical Society, 76 (2): 105–115. JSTOR
• Marris, J.W.M. 2000: The beetle (Coleoptera) fauna of the Antipodes Islands, with comments on the impact of mice; and an annotated checklist of the insect and arachnid fauna. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 30 (2): 169–195. DOI: 10.1080/03014223.2000.9517616 PDF

• Sirvid, P.J. et al. 2010: 6. Phylum Arthropoda Chelicerata: horseshoe crabs, arachnids, sea spiders. Pp. 50-89 in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) 2010. New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume 2. Kingdom Animalia. Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, ichnofossils. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch, New Zealand. Reference page.  Pp. 50-74 (PDF) Reference page.