Pholcidae C.L. Koch, 1850

Zarikian, Noushig A., Propistsova, Evgenia A. & Marusik, Yuri M., 2021, On spider families (Arachnida: Araneae) new to Armenia, Israel Journal of Entomology (Oxford, England) 51 (1), pp. 103-117 : 113

Family Pholcidae C.L. Koch, 1850

Eight species in three genera are known to occur in the Caucasus ( Otto 2020). Although some synanthropic species are widespread, none has been previously reported from Armenia. We have found at least four species belonging to three genera ( Holocnemus Simon, 1873 , Pholcus Walckenaer, 1805 and Spermophora Hentz, 1841 ); however, we are reporting only one of them that could have been identified to the species level with certainty. Holocnemus is a small genus (four species, three of which restricted to the West Mediterranean) previously reported from two republics of the former Soviet Union: Azerbaijan and Ukraine ( Mikhailov 2021). For some reasons, these records are missing from Caucasian Spiders database ( Otto 2020).