Australian Daddy Long-legs

Trichocyclus Simon, 1908

Type species: Trichocyclus nigropunctatus Simon, 1908

Fauna Portal Genus Number: 1030

(after Huber  2001): Small- to medium-sized (total length usually 3–5 mm, rarely under 2 mm) pholcids with globular or higher-than-long opisthosoma, mostly with large anterior median eyes (diameter usually 80–130% that of posterior median eyes, in T. harveyi only 70%), apparently restricted to Australia or the Australian region. Distinguished from Wugigarra (which is the only similar genus in Australia) by a characteristic weak zone dorsally on the male cymbium; by the absence of the worm-shaped process on the bulb characteristic for Wugigarra; by the absence of curved hairs on the legs; by the presence of several piriform gland spigots on the anterior lateral spinnerets (only 2 spigots on each spinneret in Wugigarra); by the absence of stridulatory files in females; and by the characteristic and conservative shape of the epigynum that has a median projection but lacks a pocket.