- Source: Pholcus
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.
It includes the cellar spider P. phalangioides, often called the "daddy longlegs". This may cause confusion because the name "daddy longlegs" is also applied to two other unrelated arthropods: the harvestman and the crane fly.
Description
Pholcus, like Pholcidae in general, have extremely long and thin legs. The genus can be distinguished from other pholcid genera by its large size (body length >4 mm), eight eyes, evenly domed prosoma (lacking a median furrow or pit) and cylindrical opisthosoma (longer than it is high).
Habitat
In the wild, Pholcus live in environments such as caves, under rocks, forest shrubs and deep limestone cracks. Synanthropic species such as P. phalangioides live in and around buildings and other disturbed habitats.
Species
Identification resources
Pholcus of Europe: https://araneae.nmbe.ch/specieskey/263/Pholcus
Pholcus of North America: https://bugguide.net/node/view/9609
References
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Latrodectus hasseltii
- Suku Wedda
- Pholcus phalangioides
- Pholcus
- Pholcidae
- Engyodontium aranearum
- Pholcus opilionoides
- Pholcus manueli
- Pholcus fragillimus
- Pholcus ancoralis
- Pholcus ponticus
- Pholcus velitchkovskyi
