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Psilochorus simoni
Authors/Creators
- 1. Geo-Biodiversity and Natural Patrimony Laboratory (GEOBIO), Scientific Institute, Research Centre (GEOPAC), Mohammed V University in Rabat, BP 703, Agdal, 10090, Rabat, Morocco souad. benhalima @ is. um 5. ac. ma, benhalima. souad @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 7240 - 0914
- 2. Geo-Biodiversity and Natural Patrimony Laboratory (GEOBIO), Scientific Institute, Research Centre (GEOPAC), Mohammed V University in Rabat, BP 703, Agdal, 10090, Rabat, Morocco souad. benhalima @ is. um 5. ac. ma, benhalima. souad @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 7240 - 0914 & Terrestrial Ecology Unit, Ledeganckstraat 35, B- 9000 Gent, Belgium rop _ bosmans @ telenet. be; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 4705 - 8587 Corresponding author & Geo-Biodiversity and Natural Patrimony Laboratory (GEOBIO), Scientific Institute, Research Centre (GEOPAC), Mohammed V University in Rabat, BP 703, Agdal, 10090, Rabat, Morocco souad. benhalima @ is. um 5. ac. ma, benhalima. souad @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 7240 - 0914
Description
20. Psilochorus simoni (Berland, 1911)
Psilochorus simoni; Zamani & Marusik 2025: 333.
Citations (1): Marrakech-Safi: Marrakech, Oukaïmden, High Atlas (Zamani & Marusik 2025).
Distribution: Introduced to Morocco, Europe, Turkey, New Zealand. USA (World Spider Catalog 2026).
Notes
Published as part of Benhalima, Souâd & Bosmans, Robert, 2026, First catalog of spiders of Morocco (Arachnida: Araneae): A critical review of all spider species cited from Morocco with their localities, pp. 1-127 in Zootaxa 5838 (1) on page 70, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5838.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/21148296
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Berland
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Araneae
- Family
- Pholcidae
- Genus
- Psilochorus
- Species
- simoni
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Psilochorus simoni (Berland, 1911) sec. Benhalima & Bosmans, 2026
References
- Zamani, A. & Marusik, Y. M. (2025) New taxonomic and faunistic data on Moroccan spiders (Arachnida: Araneae), including the description of five new species. Zootaxa, Sg, 5692 (2), 321-337. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5692.2.6
- World Spider Catalog (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.5. Natural History Museum Bern, Bern. Available from: http://wsc.nmbe.ch, (accessed on January 2026).