1964] 
Levi 
Styposis and Pholcormna 
37 
Description of male. The animal is entirely yellow-white without 
pigment; abdomen whitish. Anterior lateral eyes more than one 
diameter apart. Posterior median eyes a little less than a diameter 
apart, touching laterals. Total length 1.7 mm. Carapace 0.69 mm 
long, 0.69 mm wide. First femur, 1.97 mm; patella and tibia, 2.22 
mm; metatarsus, 1.64 mm; tarsus, 0.60 mm. Second patella and 
tibia 1.72 mm; third, 0.84 mm; fourth 1.11 mm. 
The male differs from the female by having a narrower abdomen. 
Records. Panama: El Valle, $, d\ July 1936 (A. M. Chickering). 
Key to American Pholcomma species 
1 a. Carapace yellow-white 2 
ib. Carapace brown 3 
2a. Male palpus with a spring-like coiled embolus (1957, figs. 35- 
37); epigynum with anterior depression (1957, figs. 32-33); 
Pennsylvania to North Carolina barnesi Levi 
2b. Male palpus with a short embolus (1957, figs. 28-30) ; female 
unknown; North Carolina coast carota Levi 
3a. Ducts anterior to seminal receptacles (1957, figs. 24-25) ; male 
palpus with embolus facing ectally (1957, figs. 19-21) ; eastern 
United States to Wisconsin, Mississippi, Florida 
hirsutum Emerton 
3b. Ducts posterior of seminal receptacles; males unknown; South 
America 4 
4a. Ducts, in ventral view, looping (Fig. 16) ; Catamarca, Argentina 
micro pun datum (Mello-Leitao) 
4b. Ducts, in ventral view, straight (Fig. 18) ; Minas Gerais, 
Brazil mantinum sp. n. 
Pholcomma hirsutum Emerton 
Pholcomma hirsutum Emerton, 1882, Trans. Connecticut Acad. Sci., 6:29, 
pi. 6, fig. 6, $ , $ . Two female, one male syntypes from New Haven, 
Connecticut in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, examined. — Levi, 
1957, Trans. Amer. Micros. Soc., 76:110, figs. 19-27, 48, map (hirsuta). 
Note. The gender of the generic name is neuter. 
Pholcomma micropunctatum (Mello-Leitao) 
Figures 15-16 
Dipoena micropunctata Mello-Leitao, 1941, Rev. Mus. La Plata, n. s., 2:142, 
fig. 37, $. Female holotype from La Vina, Catamarca, Argentina in the 
Museo de La Plata, examined. 
