Species Pholcus phalangioides - Longbodied Cellar Spider

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Works Cited

My Office Spider - Pholcus phalangioides

Long-bodied Cellar Spider - Pholcus phalangioides

Cellar Spider - Pholcidae - Pholcus phalangioides

Pholcus eggs hatching - Pholcus phalangioides

Cellar Spider - Pholcus phalangioides - male

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Arachnida (Arachnids)

Order Araneae (Spiders)

Infraorder Araneomorphae (True Spiders)

No Taxon (Haplogynes)

Family Pholcidae (Cellar Spiders)

Genus Pholcus

Species phalangioides (Longbodied Cellar Spider)

Explanation of Names

Phalangium, the genus of harvestmen/daddy-longlegs + -oides (οιδης)- "like, resembling" (only seen as an ending).

Size

Female: 7-8mm. Male: 6mm. (1)

Identification

Pale yellow with gray mark in center of carapace. (1)

Range

Found throughout the world. A common cellar spider across the United States.

Works Cited

1.	How to Know the Spiders By B. J. Kaston

Contributed by Mike Boone on 8 January, 2005 - 6:48pm
Additional contributions by Lynette, Chuck Entz, kschnei
Last updated 31 August, 2008 - 11:12am

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