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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Synspermiata » Cellar Spiders (Pholcidae) » Spermophora » Shortbodied Cellar Spider (Spermophora senoculata)
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Tiny pale spider - Spermophora senoculata - female
Copyright © 2006 Ashley Bradford

Tiny pale spider - Spermophora senoculata - Female
Herndon, Fairfax County, Virginia, USA
September 12, 2006
I found this little spider when pursuing a larger dark one behind a framed photo I have leaning against the wall.

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Contributed by Ashley Bradford on 12 September, 2006 - 11:59pm
Last updated 5 October, 2006 - 8:34pm

Moved
Moved from Cellar Spiders.
… Jeff Hollenbeck, 5 October, 2006 - 8:33pm login or register to post comments

Moved
This might be Spermophora senoculata.
… Jeff Hollenbeck, 4 October, 2006 - 4:49pm login or register to post comments

 
Okay, got a mug shot,
and I think you got it - the eyes certainly look right - six, with no hint of anything in the middle. Posting it as an additional image to this one.
… Ashley Bradford, 4 October, 2006 - 11:15pm login or register to post comments

 
Thank you -
I'll see if I can get other photos to compare to this page. Last I checked, they were still in the basement where I found them.
… Ashley Bradford, 4 October, 2006 - 5:16pm login or register to post comments

 
That
would be great. Any idea on the size (without legs)?
… Jeff Hollenbeck, 4 October, 2006 - 5:21pm login or register to post comments

 
If they're still there,
they'll be really easy to measure (provided they don't run from the ruler) - I'll let you know.

EDIT: Okay, they measure out at 5/64ths of an inch nose-to-butt.
… Ashley Bradford, 4 October, 2006 - 5:31pm login or register to post comments

maybe
one of the Cellar Spiders (Family: Pholcidae)
… Jonathan Burishkin, 13 September, 2006 - 4:53pm login or register to post comments

 
Those are definitely all over my house,
but these seem different. Different abdomens, shorter legs (though still long and thin).
… Ashley Bradford, 14 September, 2006 - 9:23am login or register to post comments

 
Immature, or different genus.
This could simply be a juvenile Pholcus phalangioides, or a species in a different genus. There is, in fact, a "short-bodied cellar spider"....
… Eric R. Eaton, 14 September, 2006 - 3:50pm login or register to post comments

 
Well
They ARE in the cellar... :-) I'll leave them where they are and keep an eye on them. They're not bothering anybody.
… Ashley Bradford, 15 September, 2006 - 9:36am login or register to post comments

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