Taxonomic Hierarchy
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Arachnida
- Order: Araneae
- Suborder: Araneomorphae
- Family: Pholcidae
Common Name (AAS
)
Cellar Spiders or Daddy Longlegs
Other Common Names
Granddaddy Longlegs, Vibrating Spiders
Author
Carl Ludwig Koch, 1850
Sightings Overview
There have been 177 confirmed sightings of Pholcidae (Cellar Spiders), with the most recent sighting submitted on April 25, 2020 by Spider ID member rejo. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 177 sightings because of certain Pholcidae sightings reporting incomplete data.
- Web: 48% of the time, Pholcidae spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 153)
- Sex: 32 female and 31 male.
- Environment: Pholcidae has been sighted 34 times outdoors, and 126 times indoors.
- Outdoors: Man-made structure (25). Low foliage (3). High foliage (1). Ground layer (2). Under rock or debris (1). Desert area (2).
Location and Range
Pholcidae (Cellar Spiders) has been sighted in the following countries: Afghanistan, Australia, Brazil, Canada, India, Italy, Malaysia, Mali, Pakistan, Puerto Rico, South Africa, Spain, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States.
Pholcidae has also been sighted in the following states: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, Washington, D.C., West Virginia, Wisconsin.
Seasonality
Pholcidae has been primarily sighted during the month of March.
- January: 12
- February: 18
- March: 36
- April: 26
- May: 35
- June: 7
- July: 7
- August: 4
- September: 3
- October: 9
- November: 10
- December: 9