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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Synspermiata » Cellar Spiders (Pholcidae) » Pholcus » Longbodied Cellar Spider (Pholcus phalangioides)
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Long-bodied Cellar Spider? - Pholcus phalangioides - male
Copyright © 2006 Cheryl Moorehead

Long-bodied Cellar Spider? - Pholcus phalangioides - Male
Seattle, King County, Washington, USA
September 20, 2006
Size: body 1cm
I found this guy just inside the entry to the crawlspace under the garage (completely unheated). My question is: can what is normally light gray and found in houses be the same as this one that is considerably larger, darker and outside? I've never seen a brown "daddy-long-legs" spider. It was gone the next day so I think that it was just waiting out the rain.
The legs were hard to measure with the eye.

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Contributed by Cheryl Moorehead on 1 October, 2006 - 12:22pm
Last updated 1 October, 2006 - 2:22pm

Moved
Moved from Spiders.
… Jeff Hollenbeck, 1 October, 2006 - 2:22pm login or register to post comments

Yes, Cellar Spider / Daddy-long-legs
This is defintely a spider and not an opilione/harvestman aka Daddy-long-legs. There can be some confusion because the Cellar Spider is also called a Daddy-long-legs.
… Lynette Elliott, 1 October, 2006 - 12:51pm login or register to post comments

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