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Pholcus phalangioides (by A. Verbruggen, Belgium)
REMARKS: Daddy-long-leg spider are many times confused with "Daddy-long-
legs" which are Opiliones (Harvestmen).
Harvestmen are arachnids (8-legged arthropods) but NOT spiders. Spiders have
two body parts (fused head-thorax and abdomen), two fangs, and produce silk.
Harvestmen do not produce silk, have no fangs, and have one body part, not two
as in spiders, nor three as in insects. Spiders have waist, Harvestmen do not.
For more info on Harvestmen : Opiliones
Spiders
Pictures of: Daddy-Long-Leg Spiders, Brown
Spiders, Dysderid Spiders, Cobweb Weavers,
Longjawed Orb Weavers, Orb Weavers, Wolf Spiders,
Nursery Web Spiders, Funnel Weavers, Sac Spiders,
Antmimic Spiders, Ground Spiders, Tropical
Wandering Spiders, Running Crab Spiders, Crab
Spiders & Jumping Spiders. Department of
Entomology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (USA)
Spiders on the web
Pictures and info of a number of spiders. Peter Bryant (USA)
Daddy-longlegs Myth
The myth: Daddy-longlegs are one of the most poisonous spiders but their fangs are too short to bite humans. About spiders and opiliones. Univ. of California Riverside (USA)
Spiders - A Nature Observer's Scrapbook
Some info and pictures of Garden orb spider, Green
orb weaver, Walnut orb weaver, Zygiella x-notata,
Tetragnatha montana, Common House spider, Cobweb
spider, Mouse Spider, Snake's back spider,
Amaurobius similis, Amaurobius fenestralis,
Daddy-longlegs spider or Cellar spider & Red
velvet mite. A. Dale (UK)
Spindlar
Grönspindeln (Micromata virescens) & Nya spindelart hittad i Finland (Pholcus phalangioides). Info and picture. The Zoological Museum, part of the Finnish Museum of Natural History (in Finnish) (Finland)
