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Daddy long-legs
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Fact Box
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female: 8 mm
male: 7 mm
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In a loose web in sheds, caves, rock crevices, and under bridges
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Uncertain; may may be too small to cause human illness
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This spider is distinguished from other pholcids by the shape of its abdomen, which is almost globular but with a broad overhanging bulge at the rear
Spider(s) with a very similar appearance: Pholcus phalangioides and Crossopriza lyoni.
Email Ron Atkinson for more information.
Last updated 1 February 2002.
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