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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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Spider above my shower
Copyright © 2012 Garrett Dyer

Spider above my shower
Seagoville, Dallas County, Texas, USA
May 14, 2012
Type of "Daddy Long Legs"? If so, this species doesn't look like the kind I grew up playing with as a kid.
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Contributed by Garrett Dyer on 14 May, 2012 - 6:23pm
Last updated 15 May, 2012 - 11:18pm

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Lynette Elliott, 15 May, 2012 - 11:18pm login or register to post comments

Cellar spider
It looks like a cellar spider (family Pholcidae), which I have sometimes heard called "daddy long legs". You are probably more used to that term referring to harvestmen, order Opiliones, which are somewhat distantly related to the "true spiders" (order Araneae) like cellar spiders.
… Steven N. Severinghaus, 14 May, 2012 - 6:34pm login or register to post comments

 
Wow, you know your spiders!
Wow, you know your spiders! Thanks for the accurate id.
… Garrett Dyer, 14 May, 2012 - 6:42pm login or register to post comments

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