Interesting Facts
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Common Names
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Common Names in English:
Round-Bodied Daddy-Long-Leg
Description
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Family Pholcidae
Live in dark, undisturbed places like basements and attics. They are small-bodied spiders with very long, thin legs . They are often called daddy long legs, in confusion with the harvestmen (Order Opiliones) and the crane flies (Tipulidae).[1]
Habitat
Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 2,396 meters (0 to 7,861 feet).[2]
Taxonomy
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- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Animalia
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1758
- animals
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
()
- (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
- Branch:
Protostomia
()
- Grobben, 1908
- Infrakingdom:
Ecdysozoa
()
- A.M.A. Aguinaldo et al., 1997 ex T. Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Superphylum:
Panarthropoda
()
- Cuvier
- Phylum:
Arthropoda
()
- Latreille, 1829
- Arthropods
- Subphylum:
Arachnomorpha
()
- Heider, 1913
- Infraphylum:
Cheliceriformes
()
- Superclass:
Chelicerata
()
- Epiclass:
Euchelicerata
()
- Class:
Arachnida
()
- Cuvier, 1812
- Arachnids
- Subclass:
Micrura
()
- Order:
Araneae
()
- C. Clerck, 1757
- Spiders
- Suborder:
Opisthothelae
()
- Pocock, 1892
- Infraorder:
Araneomorphae
()
- Smith, 1902
- Superfamily:
Pholcoidea
()
- C.L. Koch, 1851
- Family:
Pholcidae
()
- C.L. Koch, 1850
- Cellar Spiders
- Genus:
Physocyclus
()
- Simon, 1893
- Specific name:
globosus
- (Taczanowski, 1874)
- Scientific name: - Physocyclus globosus (Taczanowski, 1874)
- Specific name:
globosus
- (Taczanowski, 1874)
- Genus:
Physocyclus
(
- Family:
Pholcidae
(
- Superfamily:
Pholcoidea
(
- Infraorder:
Araneomorphae
(
- Suborder:
Opisthothelae
(
- Order:
Araneae
(
- Subclass:
Micrura
(
- Class:
Arachnida
(
- Epiclass:
Euchelicerata
(
- Superclass:
Chelicerata
(
- Infraphylum:
Cheliceriformes
(
- Subphylum:
Arachnomorpha
(
- Phylum:
Arthropoda
(
- Superphylum:
Panarthropoda
(
- Infrakingdom:
Ecdysozoa
(
- Branch:
Protostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Synonyms
Artema atlanta Walckenaer • Decetia incisa O. P. -Cambridge • Pholcus gibbosus Keyserling • Pholcus globosus Taczanowski • Physocyclus dubius Mello-Leitao • Physocyclus muricola Badcock • Physocyclus orientalis Zhu & Song
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
First described: Taczanowski, L. Les aranéides de la Guyane française.
Horae Soc. ent. Ross. 10: 56-115., 1874.
Last scrutiny: 05-Jan-2008
Similar Species
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Members of the genus Physocyclus
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 1 species and subspecies in this genus:
P. globosus (Round-Bodied Daddy-Long-Leg)
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Further Reading
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- A synonymic index-catalogue of spiders of North, Central and South America with all adjacent islands, Greenland, Bermuda, West Indies, Terra del Fuego, Galapagos, etc. / by Alexander Petrunkevitch. New York: Published by order of the Trustees, for sale at the Museum, 1911 url p. 161, p. 737, p. 773.
- American spiders. New York, Van Nostrand[1949] url p. 259.
- Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. New York, New York Academy of Sciences. url p. 83.
- Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. New YorkAmerican Museum of Natural History1881- url p. 161, p. 737, p. 773.
- Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 89 1942 Cambridge, Mass.: The Museum, 1863- url p. 335, p. 372.
- Coral and atolls: a history and description of the Keeling-Cocos Islands, with an account of their fauna and flora, and a discussion of the method of development and transformation of coral structures By F. Wood-Jones... London, Lovell Reeve & Co., Ltd., 1912. url p. 366.
- Entomological news. [Philadelphia]American Entomological Society, 1925- url p. 206.
- Proceedings - California Academy of Sciences, 4th series. San Francisco, California Academy of Sciences. url p. 562.
- Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia url p. 571, p. 852, p. 852.
- Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco, Calif.: The Academy, 1897- url p. 333, p. 383.
- Studies in natural history. Iowa City, Ia. url p. 11.
- The spider book; a manual for the study of the spiders and their near relatives, the scorpions, pseudoscorpions, whip-scorpions, harvestmen, and other members of the class Arachnida, found in America north of Mexico, by John Henry Comstock. .. Garden City, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1912. url p. 329.
- University of Iowa studies in natural history. Iowa City, Iowa: The University, 1918-1948. url .
Notes
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Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 16, 2012.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal January 10, 2008:
- Canadian Arachnologist Nearctic Spider Database, Canadian Arachnologist Nearctic Spider Database
- Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad
- , Biodiversidad de Costa Rica
- UNIBIO, IBUNAM, CNAN/Arañas sinantrópicas
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3553869
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Ara-003781
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 216003
Footnotes
- http://bugguide.net/index.php?q=search&keys=Holocnemus&search=Search [back]
- Mean = 2,118.790 meters (6,951.411 feet), Standard Deviation = 496.240 based on 146 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
