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Common Cellar Spiders
Pholcus
The spider genus Pholcus contains the cellar spider P. phalangioides, often called the "daddy longlegs". There are 321 accepted species in the genus according to May 2016 in World Spider Catalog.
60 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Long-bodied Cellar Spider
speciesPholcus phalangioides

Manuel's Cellar Spider
speciesPholcus manueli

Harvestman Cellar Spider
speciesPholcus opilionoides

Pholcus ponticus
speciesPholcus ponticus

Pholcus crypticolens
speciesPholcus crypticolens

Pholcus ancoralis
speciesPholcus ancoralis

Pholcus alticeps
speciesPholcus alticeps

Pholcus zichyi
speciesPholcus zichyi

Pholcus spilis
speciesPholcus spilis

Pholcus gracillimus
speciesPholcus gracillimus

Pholcus kingi
speciesPholcus kingi

Pholcus dixie
speciesPholcus dixie

Pholcus higoensis
speciesPholcus higoensis

Pholcus fragillimus
speciesPholcus fragillimus

Pholcus otomi
speciesPholcus otomi

Pholcus reevesi
speciesPholcus reevesi

Pholcus dade
speciesPholcus dade

Pholcus baguio
speciesPholcus baguio

Pholcus cheaha
speciesPholcus cheaha

Pholcus kapuri
speciesPholcus kapuri

Pholcus ornatus
speciesPholcus ornatus

Pholcus nagasakiensis
speciesPholcus nagasakiensis

Pholcus gomerae
speciesPholcus gomerae

Pholcus koasati
speciesPholcus koasati

Pholcus choctaw
speciesPholcus choctaw
Pholcus negara
speciesPholcus negara

Pholcus ceylonicus
speciesPholcus ceylonicus

Pholcus arayat
speciesPholcus arayat

Pholcus shuguanensis
speciesPholcus shuguanensis

Pholcus kimi
speciesPholcus kimi

Pholcus crassipalpis
speciesPholcus crassipalpis

Pholcus woongil
speciesPholcus woongil

Pholcus noeun
speciesPholcus noeun

Pholcus kwanaksanensis
speciesPholcus kwanaksanensis
Pholcus spasskyi
speciesPholcus spasskyi
Pholcus turcicus
speciesPholcus turcicus
Pholcus bimbache
speciesPholcus bimbache
Pholcus calcar
speciesPholcus calcar
Pholcus corcho
speciesPholcus corcho
Pholcus corniger
speciesPholcus corniger
Pholcus edentatus
speciesPholcus edentatus
Pholcus fuerteventurensis
speciesPholcus fuerteventurensis
Pholcus guadarfia
speciesPholcus guadarfia
Pholcus helenae
speciesPholcus helenae
Pholcus knoeseli
speciesPholcus knoeseli
Pholcus malpaisensis
speciesPholcus malpaisensis
Pholcus mascaensis
speciesPholcus mascaensis
Pholcus multidentatus
speciesPholcus multidentatus
Pholcus roquensis
speciesPholcus roquensis
Pholcus sveni
speciesPholcus sveni
Pholcus tenerifensis
speciesPholcus tenerifensis
Pholcus velitchkovskyi
speciesPholcus velitchkovskyi
Pholcus sidorenkoi
speciesPholcus sidorenkoi
Pholcus bolikhamsai
speciesPholcus bolikhamsai
Pholcus jaegeri
speciesPholcus jaegeri
Pholcus laksao
speciesPholcus laksao
Pholcus namkhan
speciesPholcus namkhan
Pholcus steineri
speciesPholcus steineri
Pholcus sublaksao
speciesPholcus sublaksao
Pholcus thakek
speciesPholcus thakek
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
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Every page naming Pholcus in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
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 67329.