Holocnemus

Holocnemus
	A marbled cellar spider (Holocnemus pluchei) carrying prey.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Pholcidae
Subfamily:	Holocneminae
Genus:	Holocnemus; Simon, 1873[1]
Type species
	H. pluchei; (Scopoli, 1763)
Species
	H. caudatus (Dufour, 1820) – Spain, Italy (Sicily) ; H. hispanicus Wiehle, 1933 – Portugal, Spain ; H. pluchei (Scopoli, 1763) – Europe, northern Africa;

Holocnemus is a genus of cellar spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1873.[2] As of June 2019 it contains only three species, found only in Africa and Europe: H. caudatus, H. hispanicus, and H. pluchei.[1]

References

"Gen. Holocnemus Simon, 1873". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-04.
Simon, E. (1873). "Aranéides nouveaux ou peu connus du midi de l'Europe. (2e mémoire)". Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège. 5 (2): 187–351.

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