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An urban legend claims that the harvestman is the most venomous animal in the world [66] but possesses fangs too short or a mouth too round and small to bite a human, rendering it harmless (the same myth applies to Pholcus phalangioides and the crane fly, which are both also called a "daddy longlegs"). [67]
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 ]
Phalangium opilio (also known as the common harvestman, brown harvestman and daddy longlegs) is a species of harvestman belonging to the family Phalangiidae. Taxonomy [ edit ]
Daddy longlegs or daddy long legs may refer to: Life forms. Animals. Opiliones or harvestmen, an order of arachnids; Pholcidae or cellar spiders, a family of spiders;
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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]
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]
Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images Nicolas Cage continues to provide nightmare fuel for the promotion of his new horror film, Longlegs. On Wednesday, July 24, the movie’s official Instagram page ...