page_title: Panjange
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Panjange / Description
caption_attribution_description: English: Panjange camiguin male, SEM micrograph. Arrows point at tiny Anterior Median Eye remnants. Scale bars = 200 μm
context_page_description: Panjange is a genus of leaf-dwelling spiders in the family Pholcidae, widely distributed in the islands of Southeast Asia from Borneo and the Philippines to northern Australia. Panjange spiders exhibit some of the most extraordinary morphology among Pholcidae. Males of most species have eye stalks, sometimes with long pointed processes; males of some species have unusually elongated pedipalps, which in spiders function as copulatory organs; and females of some species have external portions of their genitalia strongly folded and extensible. The biological significance of these sexual modifications remain unclear.
context_section_description: Panjange spiders are light yellow in color, with brownish patterning on the body. There are six eyes in two small groups: in males the eyes are situated on two stalks or turret-like structures.
caption: Male P. camiguin, frontal view, showing elongated eyestalks with pointed processes
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