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Long Bodied Cellar Spider, female - Pholcus phalangioides - female

Long Bodied Cellar Spider, female - Pholcus phalangioides - Female
Bonny Doon, Back Ranch Rd area, Santa Cruz County, California, USA
November 19, 2010
Well, a refrigerator Room spider....... I have photos of the other spider that came to dinner on the 17th, and stayed for dessert, but I'm not sure it is identifiable.

Images of this individual: tag all
Long Bodied Cellar Spider, female - Pholcus phalangioides - female Long Bodied Cellar Spider, female - Pholcus phalangioides - female Long Bodied Cellar Spider, male - Pholcus phalangioides - male Long Bodied Cellar Spider, male - Pholcus phalangioides - male Long Bodied Cellar Spider, male - Pholcus phalangioides - male Long Bodied Cellar Spider, male - Pholcus phalangioides - male

Moved
Moved from Cellar Spiders.

Pholcus phalangioides (Fuessl
Pholcus phalangioides (Fuesslin, 1775)

The first two images are of a female; the other are of the male, including a nice image of the male pedipalp.

-K

 
Female dinner
Would there be any benefit to me adding the 'dinner' the female had with her? Looked pretty recent.

 
Wow...
I was wondering what happened.

The one I took the photos of tonight was within 3 inches of where the one 2 nights ago was, but seemed smaller much less the body was obviously deflated.

Lets see if I can mark these images correctly. And TAHNKS for the ID!

 
Just to make sure I haven't t
Just to make sure I haven't talked myself into a corner... perhaps in the first two images we are looking at an immature/subadult male that then moulted? Perhaps R.J. or someone else knows more about these? I don't think I can recall seeing a subadult male, so not sure.

 
different parts
Now that you ahve me looking at it, there are the manibles? ( don't knwo the terminology, and somethin else on the head, as well as the body differences.

The first ones, that is Female large body small mouth parts, was taken 7 PM on Wednesday the 17th, and the Male, smaller elongated body, larger mouth parts, was taken about 1 PM on Fri the 19th.

Not to worry, I just re searched the area. the male is 8 in away in one direction from the original female photos, she is 12 inches away from the original spot, and I found a third male. My mistake right from the beginning when I thought it was the same spider.

I'll try for photos of her eyes at another point, they are wedged in under a shelf where the flash units are in the way of getting close enough to focus.
Scott

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