Rocky Area Inhabiting Daddy Long-Legs Spiders, <i>Pholcus</i> Walckenaer, 1805 (Araneae: Pholcidae) in Mountainous Mixed Forests from South Korea

Abstract

Two new spider species of the genus Pholcus Walckenaer, 1805, Pholcus deokjeok sp. nov. and Pholcus gangneung sp. nov. in the family Pholcidae C. L. Koch, 1850 are newly described from South Korea. The present new species belong to the phungiformes group in the genus. They are found on rock walls in mountainous mixed forests. This work provides diagnoses, detailed descriptions, and taxonomic photographs for these new species. The unusual shaped and strongly sclerotized embolus of P. gangneungsp. nov. in the Pholcus phungiformes group is the first to be reported.

Keywords

• diagnosis
• habitat
• new species
• <i>phungiformes</i> group
• rock wall
• taxonomy