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Physocyclus globosus

Round-body Daddy-longlegs

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General Information

COMMON NAMES: Round-body Daddy-longlegs

TRADITIONAL NAMES: Mangamanga (PK)

GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION: pantropical & subtropical (incl. Samoa - Marquesas)

COOK ISLANDS STATUS: Native?, Introduced?; Land, lowlands and inland; mainly in buildings

KEY FEATURES: xxx BodyL: CEPHALOTHORAX: nearly round, projecting forward and down from eyes. A deep median longitudinal groove behind eyes. A dark band the width of eye region extends almost to posterior margin. Three pairs of dark spots lateral to median band. ABDOMEN: Globular, white with grey spots. LEGS: Extremely long and slender, several times body length. EYES: Eight in two lateral groups of three, between which are two small eyes. WEB: An irregular tangle of the type called a cobweb.

SIMILAR SPECIES: Artema is much larger, and Modisimus is much smaller.

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Cook Islands Distribution

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Southern Group: Present Makatea:
RR	MG	AT	MK	MT	AK	PL	TK	MN
					P

Northern Group: Present
TN	MH	RK	PK	NS	SW
	P	P	P

Key to Symbols

blank	no data
-	absent	L	localised
X	extinct 'naturally'	W	widespread
XQi	quarantine intercepted	R	recent
XQe	eradicated	?	query preceding category
P	present	T?	taxonomic query
S	seasonal	nn	present, said to have no name
O	occasional	?1	present, name not investigated
++++	very common	?2	presence not verified, no name recorded
+++	common	N/A	absent, name not expected
++	uncommon
+	rare
Cook Islands islands: RR =Rarotonga, MG = Mangaia, AT =‘Ātiu, MK=Ma‘uke, MT=Miti‘āro, AK=Aitutaki, PL=Palmerston, PN=Penrhyn, MN=Manuae, TK=Takūtea, TN=Tongareva (TS=Tongaleva Spoken, TW=Tongareva Written, they say "el" but write "r"), MH=Manihiki, RK=Rakahanga, PK=Pukapuka, NS=Nassau, SW=Suwarrow. After a Polynesian name: ^=orthography query. Countries and other: FIJ=Fiji, WT=Wallis & Futuna, SAM=Samoa, TON=Tonga, NIU=Niue, CK=Cook Islands, CKM=Cook Islands Māori, FP=French Polynesia, AUS=Australs, SOC=Societies, TAH=Tahiti, TUA=Tuamotus, MQS=Marquesas, MNG=Mangareva, PIT=Pitcain group, EAS=Easter Island, HAW=Hawai‘i, NZ=New Zealand, NZM=New Zealand Māori

Scientific Taxonomy

Physocyclus globosus (Taczanowski, 1873)
SYNONYMS: Pholcus globosus

TAXONOMY: ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; CHELICERATA; ARACHNIDA; Araneae (=Araneida); Araneomorphae; PHOLCIDAE

Vouchers & References

Vouchers:
Aitutaki: 24 females, 5 males (BJM60). Manihiki: 1 female, 1 male, 7 immature (BJM60). Rakahanga: 1 female (BJM60). Pukapuka: 1 female (BJM55) as Physocyclus globosus.

References:
Special Reference: Marples, B.J. 1955. Spiders of some Pacific Islands. Pacific Science. v.IX:69-76.

Data Update History (information):
zTX, zB02, zM02, zD02

Web Resources

Citation Information

McCormack, Gerald (2007) Cook Islands Biodiversity Database, Version 2007.2. Cook Islands Natural Heritage Trust, Rarotonga. Online at http://cookislands.bishopmuseum.org.
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