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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Synspermiata » Cellar Spiders (Pholcidae) » Pholcophora » Pholcophora americana

Species Pholcophora americana

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Range · Works Cited
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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Chelicerata (Chelicerates)
Class Arachnida (Arachnids)
Order Araneae (Spiders)
Infraorder Araneomorphae (True Spiders)
No Taxon (Synspermiata)
Family Pholcidae (Cellar Spiders)
Genus Pholcophora
Species americana (Pholcophora americana)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
See the World Spider Catalog.
Range
Western United States and southwestern Canada: "Widely distributed in the western U.S., throughout the Rocky Mountains; also known from one locality in southwestern Canada. So far not reported from Mexico" (1)).
Works Cited
1.New World pholcid spiders (Araneae, Pholcidae): a revision at generic level
Bernhard Huber. 2000. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, no. 254.
Contributed by Ken Schneider on 16 June, 2013 - 3:51pm
Additional contributions by cheins
Last updated 8 July, 2015 - 2:06pm

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