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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Synspermiata » Cellar Spiders (Pholcidae) » Pholcus » Pholcus opilionoides
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Pholcus opilionoides - female
Copyright © 2013 Chad Heins

Pholcus opilionoides - Female
Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minnesota, USA
April 30, 2013
Size: 4.5mm

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Contributed by Chad Heins on 1 May, 2013 - 2:35pm
Last updated 28 July, 2014 - 12:02pm

Moved
Moved from Pholcus.
… Chad Heins, 12 June, 2014 - 1:01pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Longbodied Cellar Spider.

This specimen was small at 4.5mm for P. phalangioides. Pattern on sternum suggests P. opilionoides and epigynum seems to match Cutler, 2007 for that species.

P. manueli, according to Gertsch, 1937, should have "two pale brown longitudinal stripes" on the clypeus which were not found on this specimen. Additionally, the epigynum on this specimen does not have the same slope angle on the "triangular" plate as depicted in Gertsch, 1937 or Cutler, 2007.
… Chad Heins, 18 June, 2013 - 1:35pm login or register to post comments

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