Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Long legged spider

Posted by Roger Thomason on 29-09-2011 12:40
#1
Anyone able to ID this spider, loads of which have been plaguing someone's house Shock (not mine thankfully) Smile Body size about 5-6mm.
Edited by Roger Thomason on 29-09-2011 12:41

Posted by Paul Beuk on 29-09-2011 13:33
#2
Looks like a regular Pholcus phalangioides, the cellar spider or skull spider, erroneously also called daddy longlegs.

Posted by ChrisR on 29-09-2011 15:56
#3
Also known as the Cave Spider ... incredibly common down here in the south ... just about every corner of my house has got one ... but they maybe be rarer in the north Smile

EDIT: Yes, just checked the NBN - see the map here
Edited by ChrisR on 29-09-2011 15:59

Posted by Calilasseia on 18-10-2011 23:03
#4
This is a species that has been spreading northwards in the UK over the past few years ... one of my Entomology Society colleagues recorded several hundred of them in a derelict house in Runcorn!