Pholcus creticus Senglet, 1971

Higher Taxonomy
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Family: Pholcidae
Genus: Pholcus
Characterisation
Troglophile
Distribution
Endemic to Greece
Locus Typicus
Spilaio Zoure
Region: Kriti / Regional unit: Chania / Municipality: Kantanos - Selino / Closest settlement: Azogyres
Distribution in caves of Greece
  • Spilaio Koumarospilios, Huber 2012
    Region: Kriti / Regional unit: Chania / Municipality: Chania / Closest settlement: Chordaki
  • Spilaio Zoure, Senglet 1971, Brignoli 1979a, Bosmans & Chatzaki 2005, Bosmans et al. 2013, Beron 2016
    Region: Kriti / Regional unit: Chania / Municipality: Kantanos - Selino / Closest settlement: Azogyres
  • Spilaio Agias Sofias, Senglet 1971, Brignoli 1979a, Bosmans & Chatzaki 2005, Huber 2011, Bosmans et al. 2013, Beron 2016
    Region: Kriti / Regional unit: Chania / Municipality: Kissamos / Closest settlement: Topolia
  • Spilaio Gaidourotrypa, Eberle et al 2018
    Region: Kriti / Regional unit: Lasithi / Municipality: Agios Nikolaos / Closest settlement: Kritsa
Comments

Endemic to Crete.

IUCN Red List
LC - Least Concern
Greece's Red Data Book
LC - Least Concern
Protection status
  • There is no species-specific legal framework for protection.
Check Databases
Fauna Europea
GBIF
IUCN Red List
PESI
Species references
  • Beron, P. 2016. Faune cavernicole de la Grèce. Maison d'édition Est-West., Sofia. pp. 229.
  • Bosmans, R. & Chatzaki, M. 2005. A catalogue of the spiders of Greece. A critical review of all spider species cited from Greece with their localities. Newsletter Belg. Arachn. Soc., 20 (2): 1-124.
  • Bosmans, R., Van Keer, J., Russell-Smith, A., Kronestedt, T., Alderweireldt, M., Bosselaers, J. & De Koninck, H. 2013. Spiders of Crete (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from the Greek Island of Crete. Newsletter Belg. Arachn. Soc., 28 (1): 1-147.
  • Brignoli, P. M. 1979. Ragni di Grecia XI. Specie nuove o interessanti, cavernicole ed epigee. Rev. suisse Zool., 86 (1): 181-202.
  • Eberle J, Dimitrov D, Valdez-mondragón A, Huber BA 2018. Microhabitat change drives diversification in pholcid spiders. BMC Evol Biol 18, 141 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-018-1244-8
  • Huber, B.A. 2011. Revision and cladistic analysis of Pholcus and closely related taxa (Araneae, Pholcidae). Bonn. Zool. Beitr., 58: 1-509.
  • Huber, Β.A. 2012. An annotated list of the pholcid spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae) deposited at the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris.. Version 2, 25pp, http://www.pholcidae.de/PDFs/Paris_collection_2012.pdf , accessed on 18.2.2018
  • Senglet, A. 1971. Note sur les Pholcidae de Grèce. Mitt. schweiz. ent. Ges., 44: 345-359.
Citation
Paragamian, K. 2026. Pholcus creticus Senglet, 1971. In Paragamian, K., M. Poulinakis, S. Paragamian and I. Nikoloudakis. Cave fauna of Greece database - Hellenic Institute of Speleological Research. Species data updated 17.11.2025, Accessed 08.02.2026