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Cellar Spiders
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Cellar Spiders

Pholcidae

The Pholcidae are a family of araneomorph spiders. The family contains more than 2,000 individual species of pholcids, including those commonly known as cellar spider, daddy long-legs spider, carpenter spider, daddy long-legger, vibrating spider, gyrating spider, long daddy, money spider, and angel spider. The family, first described by Carl Ludwig Koch in 1850, is divided into 94 genera.

The common name "daddy long-legs" is used for several species, especially Pholcus phalangioides, but is also the common name for several other arthropod groups, including harvestmen and crane flies.

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6 branches of this family, most-observed first

Pholcinae

subfamilyPholcinae

Smeringopinae

subfamilySmeringopinae

Arteminae

subfamilyArteminae

Modisiminae

subfamilyModisiminae

Ninetinae

subfamilyNinetinae

Caipirinae

subfamilyCaipirinae

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 47823.