Micropholcomma bryophilum
Creators: name: Rix, Michael
name: Harvey, Mark
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Micropholcommatidae
Micropholcomma
Micropholcomma bryophilum

description: <i>Micropholcomma bryophilum</i> (Butler, 1932) Figs 10A–B, 11B, 12A, 12D, 15C, 18–21, 22A, 22C, 23A–B <i>Microlinypheus bryophilus</i> Butler, 1932: 104, pl. 1, figs 1–7. Roewer, 1942: 617. Bonnet, 1957: 2885. <i>Micropholcomma bryophila</i> (Butler): Hickman, 1944: 186, figs 11–14. Forster, 1959: 299. <i>Micropholcomma bryophilum</i> (Butler): Davies, 1985: 89. Platnick, 2009. <b>Type material.</b> Syntype male and female: Lorne, Victoria, Australia, from moss, I.1928, C. Oke, C. Gabriel (NMV K100/K101) (NOTE second female in sealed vial, K102, is not conspecific). <b>Selected material examined.</b> <b>AUSTRALIA: Victoria:</b> Great Otway National Park, track to Cora Lynn Cascades, near Lorne, 22.IV.2006, M. Rix, 2♁, 6&amp;female; (WAM T77726); same data, 1♁ (WAM T80013 DNA-MPE); Great Otway National Park, Maits Rest, 10 km W. of Apollo Bay, 23.IV.2006, M. Rix, 2♁, 1&amp;female; (WAM T94451); Great Otway National Park, Melba Gully, 24.IV.2006, M. Rix, 1♁, 1&amp;female; (WAM T94452); Otway Ranges, Beauchamp Falls, 24.IV.2006, M. Rix, 2&amp;female; (WAM T94442); Yarra Ranges National Park, ‘ The Beeches’, near Marysville, 18.IV.2006, M. Rix, 4♁, 7&amp;female; (WAM T94453 SEM♁ &amp;female;). <b>Remarks.</b> <i>Micropholcomma bryophilum</i> is similar to, and often sympatric with, <i>M. caeligenum</i>, e.g. in the Yarra Ranges and Otway Ranges of Victoria. It can be most easily distinguished by the smaller size and presence of a four-segmented pedipalp on the female (Fig. 19C).
description: Published as part of <i>Rix, Michael &amp; Harvey, Mark, 2010, The spider family Micropholcommatidae (Arachnida: Araneae: Araneoidea): a relimitation and revision at the generic level, pp. 1-321 in ZooKeys 36 (36)</i> on page 25, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.36.306, http://zenodo.org/record/576620
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