Daddy Long-legs
Male, Head, ventral
Ellura
Adelaide's Fly Mimic
Dorsal
 
                      
Daddy Long-legs (Smeringopus cf natalensis)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:     Female, Palps, ventral
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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This species is classed as If (Foreign Introduction)