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 Long legged spider
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| Roger Thomason |
Posted on 29-09-2011 12:40
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 Member Location: Mossbank,Shetland Isles. Posts: 5268 Joined: 17.07.08 |
Anyone able to ID this spider, loads of which have been plaguing someone's house  (not mine thankfully)  Body size about 5-6mm.
Roger Thomason attached the following image:  [113.39Kb] Edited by Roger Thomason on 29-09-2011 12:41 |
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| Paul Beuk |
Posted on 29-09-2011 13:33
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 Super Administrator Location: Netherlands Posts: 19403 Joined: 11.05.04 |
Looks like a regular Pholcus phalangioides, the cellar spider or skull spider, erroneously also called daddy longlegs.
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 29-09-2011 15:56
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 Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7703 Joined: 12.07.04 |
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 EDIT: Yes, just checked the NBN - see the map here Edited by ChrisR on 29-09-2011 15:59 Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| Calilasseia |
Posted on 18-10-2011 23:03
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 Member Location: Near Liverpool, UK Posts: 90 Joined: 20.09.11 |
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! |
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