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Species Pholcophora americana

Pholcophora americana? - Pholcophora americana - female Pholcophora americana? - Pholcophora americana - female Pholcophora americana female? - Pholcophora americana - female Pholcophora americana female? - Pholcophora americana - female Pholcophora? with egg sac - Pholcophora americana - female Pholcophora americana - female Araneae - Pholcophora americana tiny cellar spider - Pholcophora americana - female
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
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.