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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Synspermiata » Cellar Spiders (Pholcidae)
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unknown cellar spider
Copyright © 2011 Matthew Priebe

unknown cellar spider
Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Pima County, Arizona, USA
March 30, 2011
Size: 1/3rd inch (body only)
This spider was in Sonoran Desert habitat on the Mexican border. Some sort of cellar spider. Quite large for the cellar spiders.
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Contributed by Matthew Priebe on 26 April, 2011 - 3:29pm
Last updated 27 April, 2011 - 2:20pm

Physocyclus mexicanus Banks 1898
This appears to be similar to a cellar spider that is common found in packrat dens in Central Arizona, tentatively identified as Physocyclus mexicanus by Huber, from a very short descripion and drawing by Banks. Type specimens may have been destroyed by fire.
… Charles Kristensen, 12 June, 2014 - 3:11pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request. It looks like there are 16 species in the southwest on this list. Yours has some large chelicerae!
… Lynette Elliott, 27 April, 2011 - 2:20pm login or register to post comments

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