Daddy Long-legs: Female, Palps, ventral

Daddy Long-legs (Smeringopus cf natalensis)

Class:

Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Spiders, Scorpions, Mites & Ticks (Arachnida)

Order:

Spiders (Araneae)

Family:

Daddy Long Legs (Pholcidae)

Species:

Daddy Long-legs (Smeringopus cf natalensis)

This Photo:

Female, Palps, ventral

Other names:

Daddy Long Legs, Daddy Longlegs or Daddy-long-legs

Thank you Mark Newton for identifying this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
~5-7mm.
Very difficult to be certain of species, with out proper examination (as with many of the spiders here).
This genus is unusual for a spider in that the male & female are the same size.

This species is classed as

If (Foreign Introduction)

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