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Pholcus alticeps

species of arachnid

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ2215857 ↗
Source-derived summary

Pholcus alticeps is a species of araneomorph spiders found in Europe from Germany to Ukraine, and in Asia to Russia to Western Siberia, the Caucasus, Iran and Tadjikistan.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Pholcus alticeps” as species of arachnid. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Pholcus, alticeps and species.

Editorial reviewUseful for establishing the present vocabulary of the subject while preserving a route back to the evidence on which that vocabulary rests. The current 28-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Pholcus, alticeps and species providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Pholcus alticeps”, the useful work is to connect “species of arachnid” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2215857. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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Current terminology should not be projected backward without checking the classification used when the underlying evidence was created. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Pholcus alticeps” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.