🕷️Pholcus phalangioides
Pholcus phalangioides, commonly known as the cosmopolitan cellar spider, long-bodied cellar spider, or one of various types called a daddy long-legs spider, is a spider of the family Pholcidae. It was first described in 1775 by the Swiss entomologist Johann Kaspar Füssli as Aranea phalangoides. Its common name of "daddy long-legs" should not be confused with a different arachnid group with the same common name, the harvestman (Opiliones), or the crane flies of the superfamily Tipuloidea.
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The IUCN Red List has not assessed Pholcus phalangioides yet.
- Body mass
- 0 kg
- Body length
- 0.01 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- not recorded
Everything we know about the Pholcus phalangioides
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass0 kgtypical adultWorld Spider Trait DatabaseOther figures ↓Hide ↑
Herberstein et al. 2022; Schmitz 2004
Source: World Spider Trait Database · Pekar et al. 2021, Database 2021:baab064 · CC BY
By sex
- Female0 kgWorld Spider Trait DatabasePekar et al. 2021, Database 2021:baab064Adhesive foot pads and prey capture behaviour; Wolff et al. 2019
Figures vary
- 0 kgWorld Spider Trait DatabasePekar et al. 2021, Database 2021:baab064Herberstein et al. 2022; Schmitz 2004
Body length0.01 maverage0.01–0.01 m · range across sexesOther figures ↓Hide ↑
Species-level value synthesised as the mean of: female, male.
By sex
- Male0.01 mWorld Spider Trait DatabasePekar et al. 2021, Database 2021:baab064Body size of European spiders from Spiders of Europe; Nentwig et al. 2018
- Female0.01 mWorld Spider Trait DatabasePekar et al. 2021, Database 2021:baab064Body size of European spiders from Spiders of Europe; Nentwig et al. 2018
- Female0.01 mWorld Spider Trait DatabasePekar et al. 2021, Database 2021:baab064Spider morphometric and foraging traits; Agnarsson 1996
- Female0.01 mWorld Spider Trait DatabasePekar et al. 2021, Database 2021:baab064Spider morphometric and foraging traits; Agnarsson 1996
- Female0.01 mWorld Spider Trait DatabasePekar et al. 2021, Database 2021:baab064Spider morphometric and foraging traits; Agnarsson 1996
- Male0.01 mWorld Spider Trait DatabasePekar et al. 2021, Database 2021:baab064Shao et al. 2022; Barrion & Litsinger 1995
Volume l0 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Pholcus phalangioides yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force, maximum lifespan.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumArthropoda
- ›classArachnida
- ›orderAraneae
- ›familyPholcidae
- ›genusPholcus
- ›speciesPholcus phalangioides
- orderSpiders · Araneae
- suborderAraneomorphae
- familyPholcidae
- genusPholcus
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumArthropoda
- subphylumChelicerata
- orderSpiders · Araneae
- suborderAraneomorphae
- familyPholcidae
- genusPholcus
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