 A
few days of collecting in eastern South Africa after the International
Congress in Badplaas, March 2001, resulted in more species of pholcids
than had previously been known from the entire country. Most new
species were found in the leaf litter; their total
body
length is about 1-3 mm.
Some live on the underside of leaves, they are more or less
transparent,
like the Quamtana vidal male
above, and difficult to see in their natural
habiatat. Descriptions of several new species in the new genus Quamtana
have been published in the Zool.
J. Linn. Soc. (2003).The only South African
Leptopholcus species (shown on the left) is tentatively assigned to
L. gracilis |
