Daddy Long-legs
Male, Body, close up
Daddy Long-legs
Male, Body, ventral
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| Daddy Long-legs Male, Body, close up | | Daddy Long-legs Male, Body, ventral | | ||
Animals Plants Info |
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Spiders, Scorpions, Mites & Ticks (Arachnida) | ||||||||||||||
| Order: | Spiders (Araneae) | |||||||||||||||
| Family: | Daddy Long Legs (Pholcidae) | |||||||||||||||
| Species: | Daddy Long-legs (Smeringopus cf natalensis)| This Photo: | Male, Eye arrangement | Other names: | Daddy Long Legs, Daddy Longlegs or Daddy-long-legs | Thank you Mark Newton for identifying this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere ~5-7mm. Very difficult to be certain of species, with out proper examination (as with many of the spiders here). This genus is unusual for a spider in that the male & female are the same size.
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