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The family contains more than 1,800 individual species of pholcids, including those commonly known as cellar spider, daddy long-legs spider, carpenter spider, daddy long-legger, vibrating spider, gyrating spider, long daddy, and angel spider. The family, first described by Carl Ludwig Koch in 1850, [1] is divided into 94 genera. [2]
Pholcus phalangioides, commonly known as the cosmopolitan cellar spider, long-bodied cellar spider, or one of various types called a daddy long-legs spider, is a spider of the family Pholcidae. This is the only spider species described by the Swiss entomologist Johann Kaspar Füssli , who first recorded it in 1775. [ 1 ]
The Opiliones (formerly Phalangida) are an order of arachnids, colloquially known as harvestmen, harvesters, harvest spiders, or daddy longlegs. As of July 2024 [update] , over 6,650 species of harvestmen have been discovered worldwide, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] although the total number of extant species may exceed 10,000. [ 4 ]
A camper woke up to hundreds of daddy longlegs crawling across their tent, video shared on 1 November by an Alaska national park shows. The spectacle is called an “aggregation,” Lake Clark ...
Pholcus is a genus of spiders of long-bodied cellar spider and allies in the family Pholcidae, with 375 described species as of January 2023. [1]It includes the cellar spider P. phalangioides, often called the "daddy longlegs". [2]
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This page lists all described genera and species of the spider family Pholcidae. ... Pale daddy long leg (Smeringopus pallidus), female. Smeringopina Kraus, 1957.
Like other harvestmen, P. opilio have long, slender legs and a short, round body. Adult P. opilio have a body length of 3.5–9 mm (1 ⁄ 8 – 3 ⁄ 8 in). Males tend to have smaller bodies than females, but have noticeably larger pedipalps and chelicerae with prominent outgrowths (horns) on the dorsal side of the second segment.