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Giant daddy long-legs

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Species:
Artema atlanta (QM)
Family:
Pholcidae
Body length:
female: 10 mm
male: 9.5 mm
Habitat:
This cosmopolitan species is often found in houses and on man-made objects that carry it across national boundaries; it is a pantropical species now found in many countries
Toxicity:
Uncertain; probably only able to cause local inflammation and very mild illness
Artema atlanta

Spider(s) with a very similar appearance: Physocyclus globosus.



Email Ron Atkinson for more information.    Last updated 25 February 2008.