Taxon details


Smeringopus pallidus (Blackwall, 1858)

  • Rank: Species (Genus type)
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2024-03-14
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:003882]
  • Distribution: Africa. Introduced to the Caribbeen, South America, Sri Lanka, China, Taiwan, Laos, Philippines, Indonesia, Australia, Pacific islands
Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany; m (9861) of Smeringopus pholcicus (Strand, 1907a)
  • Holotype: Naturhistorisches Museum, Basel (NMB), Switzerland; f (ARAN-01224a) of Smeringopus buehleri (Schenkel, 1944)
  • Syntype: Zoologisches Museum Hamburg (ZMH), Hamburg, Germany (data base search of type material, 11.02.2019); 2m 1f (A 2280-2281)
Taxonomic references
Pholcus pallidus Blackwall, 1858a: 433 (Df).
Pholcus phalangioides Doleschall, 1859: 47, pl. 16, f. 8 (f; misidentified per Thorell, 1878b: 162).
Pholcus pallidus Blackwall, 1861b: 444 (Dm).
Pholcus elongatus Vinson, 1863: 307, pl. 3, f. 5 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060169].
Pholcus distinctus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869b: 380, pl. 11, f. 28-30 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060221].
Pholcus tipuloides L. Koch, 1872a: 281, pl. 23, f. 5 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060223].
Pholcus tigrinus Taczanowski, 1874: 104, pl. 2, f. 7 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:003817].
Pholcus margarita Workman, 1878: 451, pl. 18, f. 1 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060222].
Pholcus elongatus Thorell, 1878b: 162 (S of Pholcus tipuloides).
Pholcus excavatus Simon, 1878g: 482 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:003698].
Pholcus tipuloides Marx, 1889a: 99, pl. 4, f. 5.
Smeringopus elongatus Simon, 1890a: 94.
Smeringopus elongatus Simon, 1893a: 475, f. 448 (S of Pholcus distinctus and P. margarita).
Priscula tigrina Simon, 1893a: 478.
Smeringopus purpureus Moenkhaus, 1898: 90, pl. 5, f. 1 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060172].
Smeringopus elongatus Pocock, 1900a: 239.
Smeringopus pholcicus Strand, 1907a: 527 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:003885].
Smeringopus pholcicus Strand, 1907n: 571 (Dm).
Smeringopus todai Kishida, 1913e: 43, f. 1 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060153].
Smeringopus pallidus Mello-Leitão, 1918c: 119 (Df).
Smeringopus purpureus Mello-Leitão, 1918c: 120, f. 33 (f).
Smeringopus geniculatus Mello-Leitão, 1918c: 121, f. 34-35 (f, T from Pholcus; misidentified, see Smeringopus geniculatus; S of Smeringopus elongatus, rejected by Petrunkevitch, 1929b: 144).
Smeringopus elongatus Petrunkevitch, 1929b: 144, f. 136-138 (f, revalidated contra Mello-Leitão, 1918c: 121).
Smeringopus elongatus Berland, 1929b: 43, f. 2-3 (mf).
Smeringopus kishidai Saitō, 1933b: 41, pl. 3, f. 8 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060171].
Smeringopus katangae Giltay, 1935a: 2, f. 1-3 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060170].
Smeringopus elongatus Millot, 1941: 18, f. 7A-I (mf).
Smeringopus bühleri Schenkel, 1944: 176, f. 2a-c (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:003873].
Smeringopus elongatus Millot, 1946a: 150, f. 25A (f).
Smeringopus geniculatus Mello-Leitão, 1946a: 73 (misidentified, see Smeringopus geniculatus [a nomen dubium], S of Smeringopus elongatus and S. pallidus, the oldest available name for this species).
Smeringopus pallidus Kraus, 1957: 219, f. 1-6 (mf, S of Smeringopus katangae, S. kishidai and S. purpureus).
Smeringopus pullidus Lee, 1966: 35 (S of Smeringopus todai).
Smeringopus pallidus Timm, 1976: 70, f. 7-8 (m).
Smeringopus pallidus Saaristo, 1978: 102, f. 23-26, 31-38 (mf).
Smeringopus pallidus Yaginuma, 1986a: 28, f. 17.4 (mf).
Smeringopus pallidus Huber, 1998b: 1597, f. 120-122 (mf).
Smeringopus pallidus Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 65, f. 26I-O (mf).
Smeringopus pallidus Huber, 2000: 12, f. 15, 72, 119, 164, 191 (m).
Smeringopus pallidus Huber, 2001: 134, f. 431, 434-436 (mf).
Smeringopus pallidus Huber & Zhu, 2001: 152 (S of Priscula tigrina).
Smeringopus pallidus Saaristo, 2001b: 23, f. 49-55 (mf).
Smeringopus pullidus Cai, 2003: 20, f. 1-9 (mf).
Smeringopus pallidus Beatty, Berry & Huber, 2008: 21, f. 20, 55 (mf).
Smeringopus pallidus Irie, 2009: 111, f. 39-41 (mf).
Smeringopus pallidus Saaristo, 2010: 169, f. 25.54-63 (mf).
Smeringopus excavatus Huber, 2011b: 126 (T from Pholcus).
Smeringopus pallidus Huber, 2012: 65, f. 11, 372-373, 378-379, 382-383, 387-400 (mf, S of Smeringopus buehleri, S. excavatus and S. pholcicus).
Smeringopus pallidus Yin et al., 2012: 173, f. 36a-i (mf).
Smeringopus pallidus Taucare-Ríos, 2012b: 82, f. 1A-B, 2A-B, 3 (mf).
References

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Berland, L. (1929b). Araignées (Araneida). In: Insects of Samoa and other Samoan terrestrial Arthropoda. London 8, 35-78. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Blackwall, J. (1858a). Descriptions of six newly discovered species and characters of a new genus of Araneida. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (3) 1(6): 426-434. doi:10.1080/00222935808696953 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Blackwall, J. (1861b). Descriptions of several recently discovered spiders. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (3) 8(48): 441-446. doi:10.1080/00222936108697446 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Cai, B. Q. (2003). A description of the male of Smeringopus pullidus [sic] (Araneae: Pholcidae). Acta Arachnologica Sinica 12: 20-21. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Doleschall, L. (1859). Tweede Bijdrage tot de kennis der Arachniden van den Indischen Archipel. Acta Societatis Scientiarum Indo-Neerlandicae 5(5): 1-60, pl. 1-17. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Giltay, L. (1935a). Notes arachnologiques africaines. V. Quelques araignées de Léopoldville et d'Eala (Congo belge). Bulletin du Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique 11(6): 1-11. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Huber, B. (1998b). The pholcid spiders of Costa Rica (Araneae: Pholcidae). Revista de Biología Tropical 45: 1583-1634. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Huber, B. A. & Zhu, M. S. (2001). On Taczanowski's pholcids, with three new synonymies in Pholcidae (Araneae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 12: 151-152. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Huber, B. A. (2011b). Revision and cladistic analysis of Pholcus and closely related taxa (Araneae, Pholcidae). Bonner Zoologische Monographien 58: 1-509. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Huber, B. A. (2012). Revision and cladistic analysis of the Afrotropical endemic genus Smeringopus Simon, 1890 (Araneae: Pholcidae). Zootaxa 3461: 1-138. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3461.1.1 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Irie, T. (2009). Pholcidae. In: Ono, H. (ed.) The spiders of Japan with keys to the families and genera and illustrations of the species. Tokai University Press, Kanagawa, pp. 106-111. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Kishida, K. (1913e). Japanese spiders (5). Kagaku-sekai [The Scientific World] 7(9): 824-827 = 40-43, pl. 1. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Koch, L. (1872a). Die Arachniden Australiens, nach der Natur beschrieben und abgebildet [Erster Theil, Lieferung 3-7]. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg, 105-368, pl. 8-28. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.121660 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Kraus, O. (1957). Araneenstudien 1. Pholcidae (Smeringopodinae, Ninetinae). Senckenbergiana Biologica 38: 217-243. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Lee, C. L. (1966). [Spiders of Formosa (Taiwan)]. Taichung Junior Teachers College Publisher, 84 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Marx, G. (1889a). A contribution to the knowledge of the spider fauna of the Bermuda Islands. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 41: 98-101. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1918c). Scytodidas e pholcidas do Brasil. Revista do Museu Paulista 10: 83-144. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1946a). Notas sobre os Filistatidae e Pholcidae. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 18: 39-83. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Millot, J. (1941). Les araignées de l'Afrique Occidentale Française - sicariides et pholcides. Mémoires de l'Académie des Sciences de l'Institut de France (2) 64(3, 1940): 1-53. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Millot, J. (1946a). Les pholcides de Madagascar (Aranéides). Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris (N.S.) 22: 127-158. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Moenkhaus, W. J. (1898). Contribuiçao para o conhecimento das aranhas de S.-Paulo. Revista do Museu Paulista 3: 77-112. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Petrunkevitch, A. (1929b). The spiders of Porto Rico. Part one. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 30: 1-158. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1869b). Catalogue of a collection of Ceylon Araneida lately received from Mr J. Nietner, with descriptions of new species and characters of a new genus. I. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 10(46): 373-397, pl. 11-13. [pp. 395-397, pl. 11-13 publ. in issue 47 in 1870, doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1870.tb00668.x] doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1869.tb00667.x download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pocock, R. I. (1900a). The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Arachnida. Taylor and Francis, London, 279 pp. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.48423 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Saaristo, M. I. (1978). Spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) from the Seychelle islands, with notes on taxonomy. Annales Zoologici Fennici 15: 99-126. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Saaristo, M. I. (2001b). Pholcid spiders of the granitic Seychelles (Araneae, Pholcidae). Phelsuma 9: 9-28. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Schenkel, E. (1944). Arachnoidea aus Timor und China aus den Sammlungen des Basler Museums. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 51: 173-206. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1878g). Étude sur les arachnides du Congo (suite) (1). Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France 2(6, 1877): 482-485. [year corrected per Frétey, 2023: 8] download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Strand, E. (1907n). Afrikanische Spinnen (exkl. Aviculariiden) hauptsächlich aus dem Kapland. Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere 25: 557-731. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Taczanowski, L. (1874). Les aranéides de la Guyane française. Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicae 10: 56-115, pl. 2. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Taucare-Ríos, A. O. (2012b). Primer registro de Smeringopus pallidus en Chile (Araneae: Pholcidae). Revista Chilena de Entomología 37: 81-85. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Thorell, T. (1878b). Studi sui ragni Malesi e Papuani. II. Ragni di Amboina raccolti Prof. O. Beccari. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 13: 5-317. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Yaginuma, T. (1986a). Spiders of Japan in color (new ed.). Hoikusha Publishing Co., Osaka, 305 pp., 64 pls. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Yin, C. M., Peng, X. J., Yan, H. M., Bao, Y. H., Xu, X., Tang, G., Zhou, Q. S. & Liu, P. (2012). Fauna Hunan: Araneae in Hunan, China. Hunan Science and Technology Press, Changsha, 1590 pp. download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

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