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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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Hair-Legged Spider
Copyright © 2006 Ashley Bradford

Hair-Legged Spider
Herndon, VA, USA, Fairfax County, Virginia, USA
August 16, 2006
These spiders are all over my house. They have tiny bodies and long thin legs that look like hairs. Anyone know what they are?
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Contributed by Ashley Bradford on 18 August, 2006 - 11:37am
Last updated 18 August, 2006 - 1:45pm

Cellar spiders
in the family Pholcidae, images in the guide here. Unfortunately quite a large number of species so not many get ID'd to species here at BugGuide. Nice image!
… john and jane balaban, 18 August, 2006 - 12:44pm login or register to post comments

 
Thank you!
I just discovered on another site that these are the ones known as Daddy Long Legs, which I always thought Harvestmen were called.
… Ashley Bradford, 18 August, 2006 - 12:58pm login or register to post comments

 
We've had several discussions of that here
Common names are always difficult since different people use different names for the same species or the same name for different species. Our understanding is some people use Daddy long legs for the cellar spiders, while certainly our exposure here in the midwest is that it is used for harvestmen. So Cellar spiders are different from Harvestmen (which aren't even spiders!), but Daddy Long Legs could be either!
… john and jane balaban, 18 August, 2006 - 1:41pm login or register to post comments

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