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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)
  
• Famille des Pholcidae - Araignées trembleuses, 'faucheux' Norbert Verneau (in French) (France)
  
• 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)
  
• Daddy Longlegs - A Quite Remarkable Arachnid Article from Gerry Rising, Nature Watch (USA)
  
• Die große Zitterspinne Info about Pholcus phalangioides. Arachnologische Gesellschaft e.V. (in German) (Germany)
  
• Learning at daddy-long-legs' knee Article. Chet Raymo. The Boston Globe (USA)
  
• Learning at daddy-long-legs' knee Newspaper article. Chet Raymo. The Boston Globe (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)
  
• Mejeredderkop (Pholcus phalangioides) Info and pictures. Danmarks Fugle og Natur (in Danish) (Danmark)
  
• Daddy Long-Legs Spiders Pictures and a little info. Shaun Ivory (USA)
  
• Pholcus phalangioides The Daddy-long-legs spider in 3D Interesting page with very nice pictures. Wim van Egmond. Micscape Article (UK)
  
• Kosmopolit und nützlicher Hausbewohner - die Große Zitterspinne Pholcus phalangioides. NABU (in German) (Germany)
  
• Critter Country (Daddy Longlegs) Urban Legends Reference Pages
  
• Are Daddy Longlegs world's most poisonous animals? Urban Legends Reference Pages (USA)
  
• Is a Daddy Long Legs the most poisonous spider? Straight Dope Science Advisory Board (USA)
  
• Daddy long legs spiders (Pholcidae family) Picture and info. TrekNature
  
• Daddy long legs spider Picture of spider wrapping up his prey. TrekNature
  
• Cellar spiders Pholcus. Info and pictures. University of Kentucky Department of Entomology (USA)
  
• Kentucky Spiders A lot of info and pictures. University of Kentucky Department of Entomology (USA)
  
• Pholcidae - the longest legs in the web A very excellent page of Bernhard A. Huber, a well known specialist of Pholcid spiders (Germany)
  
• Daddy-longlegs, vibrating or cellar spiders Info and pictures. Ed Nieuwenhuys (The Netherlands)

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