. Bonner zoologische Monographien. Zoology. Hl'BFR, RFA'ISION AND CI AlMS l lC ANAI VSIS OV /'//O/( Y',V ANl) (:i (XSI'1 V RKlArKiriAXA (ARANl'.AU, I'). FIG. i486. Known distribution of the Pholcus ancoralis species group. Natural history. Unknown. Pholcus ancoralis s^Qms to be very tolerant against human impact which may explain its wide distribution. Distribution. The Ph. ancoralis group is largely re- stricted to New Guinea and north-eastern Australia; only Ph. ancoralis has a much wider distribution, possibly as a result of human transport (Fig. i486). Composition. The Ph. ancoral
. Bonner zoologische Monographien. Zoology. Hl'BFR, RFA'ISION AND CI AlMS l lC ANAI VSIS OV /'//O/( Y',V ANl) (:i (XSI'1 V RKlArKiriAXA (ARANl'.AU, I'). FIG. i486. Known distribution of the Pholcus ancoralis species group. Natural history. Unknown. Pholcus ancoralis s^Qms to be very tolerant against human impact which may explain its wide distribution. Distribution. The Ph. ancoralis group is largely re- stricted to New Guinea and north-eastern Australia; only Ph. ancoralis has a much wider distribution, possibly as a result of human transport (Fig. i486). Composition. The Ph. ancoralis group includes six species; two of them are newly described below, Ph. ancoralis is redescribed. For the three Australian spe- cies, see Huber (2001). Core group: Ph. ancoralis L. Koch, 1865; Ph. varirata n. sp.; Ph. karawari n. sp.; assigned tentatively: Ph. jinwum Huber, 2001; Ph. dungara Huber, 2001; Ph. koah Huber, 2001. The AMNH has males and females of an undescribed species that appears very close to the core group but lacks horns between the male eye triads (from Papua New Guinea, Morobe Prov., Mt. Kaindi near Wau). The USNM has a single female specimen from Wau that may also belong to that species. Pholcus ancoralis!.. Koch, 1865 Figs. 1387-1389, 1413, 1414, 1487-1501 Pholcus ancoralis L. Koch 1865: 862. L. Koch 1872: 287-289, pi. 24, figs. 2, 2a-h. Berland 1929: 43-44, figs. 4, 5. Berland 1934: 328. Berland 1935: 101. Berland 1938: 162. Berland 1942: 13. Marples 1955: 466. Ledoux & Halle 1995: 2-3, fig. la. Huber 2001: 111. Beatty, Berry & Huber 2008: 15-18, figs. 23- 25, 53-54. Types. One female syntype from Samoa, Upolu [13°'S, 'W], in ZMB, examined; one male and two female syntypes (male with left palp only, females without abdomens) from same locality, no further data, in ZMH, examined. Diagnosis. Easily distinguished from most congeners by distinctive pair of horns between male eye triads (Fig. 1493) and strongly bent procursus (Fig. 1488);
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