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Pholcus opilionoides

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Western Caspian University, Baku, Azerbaijan
  • 2. Institute of Zoology, Ministry of Science and Education of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Baku, Azerbaijan & Department of Biology, University of Turku, Turku, Finland & Institute of Zoology, Ministry of Science and Education of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Baku, Azerbaijan & zamani. alireza 5 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 8084 - 9666

Description

498. Pholcus opilionoides (Schrank, 1781)

Records. Baku; Gazakh-Tovuz: Aghstafa; Lankaran-Astara: unspecified district; Mountainous Shirvan: Ismayilli, Shamakhi.

Distribution. Europe to the Caucasus, Egypt. Introduced to North America.

References.

Pholcus opilionoides: Dunin 1984: 53; Guseinov 1999: 6; Guseinov et al. 2003: 192; Guseinov & Alieva 2008: 281; Khasayeva et al. 2015: 220; Khasayeva 2016a: 326; Khasayeva 2021: 20.

Notes

Published as part of Nuruyeva, Tamara & Zamani, Alireza, 2025, An annotated checklist of the spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Azerbaijan, pp. 1-168 in Zootaxa 5680 (1) on page 96, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5680.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/16986041

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Schrank
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Araneae
Family
Pholcidae
Genus
Pholcus
Species
opilionoides
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Pholcus opilionoides (Schrank, 1781) sec. Nuruyeva & Zamani, 2025

References

  • Dunin, P. M. (1984) Fauna and ecology of spiders (Aranei) of Apsheron Peninsula (Azerbaijan SSR). In: Fauna i ekologiya paukoobraznykh [Fauna and ecology of arachnids]. Perm University, Perm, pp. 45-60. [in Russian]
  • Guseinov, E. F. (1999) Spiders of Lenkoran Natural Region and Absheron Peninsula in Azerbaijan. Abstract of Ph. D. Thesis, Baku, 29 pp. [in Russian]
  • Guseinov, E. F., Aliyev, Kh. A. & Snegovaya, N. Y. (2003) To the study of spiders of the Ismailli Nature Reserve. Society of Zoologists of Azerbaijan, Materials of the I Congress, 2003, 191-195. [in Azerbaijani]
  • Guseinov, E. F. & Alieva, T. V. (2008) Fauna of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of the Pirkuli Nature Reserve of Azerbaijan. Proceedings of the Azerbaijan Society of Zoologists, 1, 281-287. [in Russian]
  • Khasayeva, S. I. (2016 a) To the study of the fauna of spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) of the Ganja-Gazakh zone of Azerbaijan. Materials of the XVIII International Scientific Conference " Biological Diversity of the Caucasus and Southern Russia ", Grozny, 2016, 325-327. [in Russian]
  • Khasayeva, S. I. (2021) The fauna and ecology of spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) of Ganja-Gazakh zone. Abstract of PhD Thesis, Baku, 26 pp.