Pholcus Walckenaer, 1805

Of the 29 operational species groups in Pholcus identified in Huber (2011b), only three occur in Central Africa: (1) the bamboutos group, with four of its nine species in Central Africa (Fig. 27; a fifth species, P. kakum Huber, 2009, is likely to occur in Lower Guinea but has not yet been documented from there); (2) the circularis group, which is largely endemic to the area considered here (Fig. 28; only P. leruthi occurs further west, in Congolia and East Africa); (3) the debilis group, which is largely endemic to the area considered here (Fig. 29; only P. baka ranges into Congolia). While the monophyly of the debilis group is well supported, the relationships within and among the other groups remain largely obscure (Huber 2011b; Dimitrov et al. 2013).