A peer-reviewed open-access journal ZooKeys 789: 51–101 (2018) The phylogeny of pholcid spiders 51 doi: 10.3897/zookeys.789.22781 RESEARCH ARTICLE http://zookeys.pensoft.net Launched to accelerate biodiversity research The phylogeny of pholcid spiders: a critical evaluation of relationships suggested by molecular data (Araneae, Pholcidae) Bernhard A. Huber1, Jonas Eberle1, Dimitar Dimitrov2,3,4 1 Alexander Koenig Research Museum of Zoology, Adenauerallee 160, 53113 Bonn, Germany 2 Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Co- penhagen, Denmark 3 Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, PO Box 1172 Blindern, NO-0318 Oslo, Norway 4 Current address: Department of Natural History, University Museum of Bergen, University of Ber- gen, PO Box 7800, NO-5020 Bergen, Norway Corresponding author: Bernhard A. Huber (
[email protected]) Academic editor: J. Miller | Received 5 December 2017 | Accepted 20 August 2018 | Published 10 October 2018 http://zoobank.org/496949FC-A96A-4489-A094-0182520DAB6C Citation: Huber BA, Eberle J, Dimitrov D (2018) The phylogeny of pholcid spiders: a critical evaluation of relationships suggested by molecular data (Araneae, Pholcidae). ZooKeys 789: 51–101. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.789.22781 Abstract With almost 600 species, the latest molecular phylogeny of pholcid spiders (Eberle et al. 2018, BMC Evolutionary Biology) more than triples the largest previously available molecular phylogeny of the fam- ily. At the level of genera, the coverage is high (86%, i.e., 75 of the 87 named genera), and at the level of subfamilies it is complete. The present paper is an effort to critically evaluate the implications of this phy- logeny for pholcid systematics.