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Cellar spider

Crossopriza lyoni

Classification

Order
Araneae
Family
Pholcidae

The Pholcidae are a family of araneomorph spiders. The family contains more than 2,000 individual species of pholcids, including those commonly known as cellar spider, daddy long-legs spider, carpenter spider, daddy long-legger, vibrating spider, gyrating spider, long daddy, and angel spider. The family, first described by Carl Ludwig Koch in 1850, is divided into 94 genera.

Distribution

(c) Lucinda Gibson, Museum Victoria, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY
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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Peru · 1