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Species Pholcus phalangioides - Longbodied Cellar Spider


Allozyme variation in the introduced spider, Holocnemus pluchei (Araneae, Pholcidae) in California
By Adam H. Porter & Elizabeth M. Jakob
Journal of Arachnology 18(3):313-319, 1990
PDF available for free download from the AAS (384KB): http://www.americanarachnology.org/JoA_free/JoA_v18_n3/arac_18_3_0313.pdf

Crossopriza lyoni and Smeringopus pallidus: cellar spiders new to Florida (Araneae: Pholcidae)
By G.B. Edwards
Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Division of Plant Industry, Entomology Circular, No. 361:1-2, 1993

Rounding up the usual suspects: a standard target-gene approach for resolving the interfamilial phylogenetic relationships ...
By Dimitrov, D., Benavides Silva, L. R., Arnedo, M. A., Giribet, G., Griswold, C. E., Scharff, N. & Hormiga
Cladistics 33(3): 221-250 & Suppl., 2017
Full title: Rounding up the usual suspects: a standard target-gene approach for resolving the interfamilial phylogenetic relationships of ecribellate orb-weaving spiders with a new family-rank classification (Araneae, Araneoidea)
Full text PDF available through the World Spider Catalog

Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha
By Pekka Lehtinen
Annales Zoologici Fennici 4: 199-468, 1967

Total evidence analysis of the phylogenetic relationships of Lycosoidea spiders (Araneae, Entelegynae)
By Polotow, Carmichael, & Griswold
Invertebrate Systematics 29: 124-163, 2015
Full text: http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/IS14041.htm

Also available for download from the WSC: http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/reference/13115

The natural history and taxonomy of Cicurina bryantae Exline (Araneae, Agelenidae).
By Bennett, R. G.
Journal of Arachnology , 1985
Bennett, R. G. 1985 . The natural history and taxonomy of Cicurina bryantae Exline (Araneae, Agelenidae). Journal of Arachnology, 13:87-96.

The Spiders of Texas. I
By W.J. Gertsch and S. Mulaik
Bulletin of The American Museum of Natural History, Volume 78, Article 6, pp. 307-340, 1940

Spiders of the Chihuahuan Desert of Southern New Mexico and Western Texas
By David B. Richman, Sandra L. Brantley, David H-C. Hu, and Mary E. A. Whitehouse
Southwestern Association of Naturalists, 2011
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/232672909_Spiders_of_the_Chihuahuan_Desert_of_Southern_New_Mexico_and_Western_Texas