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Pholcidae Genera
The Pholcidae are a family of araneomorph spiders. The family contains more than 1,800 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. The common name "daddy long-legs" is used for several species, especially ''Pholcus phalangioides'', but is also the common name for several other arthropod groups, including harvestmen and crane flies. Appearance Pholcids have extremely long and thin legs with flexible tarsi. They can be distinguished from other long-legged spiders by the eye arrangement: Pholcidae have two groups of three eyes each, and there may be a pair of small eyes in between them. Most have this middle pair present for a total of eight eyes, but some genera (e.g. ''Modisimus'', ''Spermophora'', ''Spermophorides'') lack th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phocides
''Phocides'' is a genus of butterflies in the skipper family, Hesperiidae, in which it is placed in tribe Phocidini, of which it is the namesake genus. The distribution of the genus is primarily Neotropical, but a few species occur in the Nearctic. Species * ''Phocides batabano'' (Lucas, 1857) ** ''P. batabano okeechobee'' (Worthington, 1881) - Florida ** ''P. batabano batabanoides'' (Holland, 1903) - Bahamas ** ''P. batabano batabano'' (Lucas, 1857) - Cuba, Cayman * ''Phocides belus'' Godman & Salvin, [1893] - Mexico * ''Phocides bicolora'' (Boddaert, 1783) - Hispanola * ''Phocides charon'' (C. & R. Felder, 1859) - Brazil, Paraguay * ''Phocides distans'' (Herrich-Schäffer, 1869) ** ''P. distans distans'' - Venezuela ** ''P. distans licinus'' (Möschler, 1879) - Colombia, Panama ** ''P. distans silva'' Evans, 1952 - Peru * ''Phocides johnsoni'' Bell, 1947 - Colombia * ''Phocides lincea'' (Herrich-Schäffer, 1869) - Brazil * ''Phocides metrodorus'' Bell, 1932 ** ''P. metrod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pholcus
''Pholcus'' is a genus of spiders of long-bodied cellar spider and allies in the family Pholcidae, with 375 described species as of January 2023. It includes the cellar spider '' P. phalangioides'', often called the "daddy longlegs". This may cause confusion because the name "daddy longlegs" is also applied to two other unrelated arthropods: the harvestman and the crane fly. Description ''Pholcus'', like Pholcidae in general, have extremely long and thin legs. The genus can be distinguished from other pholcid genera by its large size (body length >4 mm), eight eyes, evenly domed prosoma (lacking a median furrow or pit) and cylindrical opisthosoma (longer than it is high). Habitat In the wild, ''Pholcus'' live in environments such as caves, under rocks, forest shrubs and deep limestone cracks. Synanthropic species such as ''P. phalangioides'' live in and around buildings and other disturbed habitats. Species * '' Pholcus abstrusus'' Yao & Li, 2012 — China * '' Pholcu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
House Spiders
The name house spider is a generic term for 11 different spiders commonly found around human dwellings, and may refer to their common name: * Yellow sac spider, ''Cheiracanthium inclusum'', a common spider worldwide often found in dwellings * Black house spider, ''Badumna insignis'', an Australian spider also found in New Zealand * Brown house spider, ''Steatoda grossa'', a spider with cosmopolitan distribution * American house spider, ''Parasteatoda tepidariorum'', a cobweb spider * Cellar spider, of the family Pholcidae, also known as daddy long-legs in North America * Domestic house spider, ''Tegenaria domestica'', also known as barn weaver in North America * Giant house spider, ''Eratigena atrica'' (formerly ''Tegenaria gigantea'') * Hobo spider, ''Eratigena agrestis'' (sometimes called aggressive house spider) * Geometric house spider or house button spider, ''Latrodectus geometricus'' (more commonly known as the brown widow) * Southern house spider, ''Kukulcania hibernali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Huntsman Spider
Huntsman spiders, members of the family Sparassidae (formerly Heteropodidae), catch their prey by hunting rather than in webs. They are also called giant crab spiders because of their size and appearance. Larger species sometimes are referred to as wood spiders, because of their preference for woody places (forests, mine shafts, woodpiles, wooden shacks). In southern Africa the genus '' Palystes'' are known as rain spiders or lizard-eating spiders. Commonly, they are confused with baboon spiders from the Mygalomorphae infraorder, which are not closely related. More than a thousand Sparassidae species occur in most warm temperate to tropical regions of the world, including much of Australia, Africa, Asia, the Mediterranean Basin, and the Americas. Several species of huntsman spider can use an unusual form of locomotion. The wheel spider (''Carparachne aureoflava'') from the Namib uses a cartwheeling motion which gives it its name, while '' Cebrennus rechenbergi'' uses a hands ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Redback Spider
The redback spider (''Latrodectus hasselti''), also known as the Australian black widow, is a species of highly venomous spider believed to originate in Australia, but which is now found in Southeast Asia and New Zealand. It has also been found in packing crates in the United States with colonies elsewhere outside Australia. It is a member of the Cosmopolitan distribution, cosmopolitan genus ''Latrodectus'', the widow spiders. The adult female is easily recognised by her spherical black body with a prominent red stripe on the upper side of her abdomen and an hourglass-shaped red/orange streak on the underside. Females usually have a body length of about , while the male is much smaller, being only long. Mainly nocturnal, the female redback lives in an untidy web in a warm sheltered location, commonly near or inside human residences. It preys on insects, spiders and small vertebrates that become ensnared in its web. It kills its prey by injecting a complex venom through its t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agelenidae
The Agelenidae are a large family of spiders in the suborder Araneomorphae. Well-known examples include the common "grass spiders" of the genus ''Agelenopsis''. Nearly all Agelenidae are harmless to humans, but the bite of the hobo spider (''Eratigena agrestis'') may be medically significant, and some evidence suggests it might cause necrotic lesions, but the matter remains subject to debate. The most widely accepted common name for members of the family is funnel weaver. Description The body length of the smallest Agelenidae spiders are about , excluding the legs, while the larger species grow to long. Some exceptionally large species, such as ''Eratigena atrica'', may reach in total leg span. Agelenids have eight eyes in two horizontal rows of four. Their cephalothorax, cephalothoraces narrow somewhat towards the front where the eyes are. Their abdomens are more or less oval, usually patterned with two rows of lines and spots. Some species have longitudinal lines on the dors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tegenaria
''Tegenaria'' is a genus of fast-running funnel weavers that occupy much of the Northern Hemisphere except for Japan and Indonesia. It was first described by Pierre André Latreille in 1804, though many of its species have been moved elsewhere. The majority of these were moved to '' Eratigena'', including the giant house spider (''Eratigena atrica'') and the hobo spider (''Eratigena agrestis''). They can be difficult to identify because they resemble wolf spiders and other funnel-web spiders in their area, unless found in an area where they do not occur naturally. They live on sheet webs, usually stretching across the corner between two walls. They have eight eyes in two straight or almost straight rows. Size varies from one species to another, but the body length of adults can range from to , not including the legs. The cardinal spider is the largest funnel weaver, with females that can grow up to long. Species it contains 129 species: *'' T. abchasica'' Charitonov, 194 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
QuickTime
QuickTime (or QuickTime Player) is an extensible multimedia architecture created by Apple, which supports playing, streaming, encoding, and transcoding a variety of digital media formats. The term ''QuickTime'' also refers to the QuickTime Player front-end media player application, which is built-into macOS, and was formerly available for Windows. QuickTime was created in 1991, when the concept of playing digital video directly on computers was "groundbreaking." QuickTime could embed a number of advanced media types, including panoramic images (called QuickTime VR) and Adobe Flash. Over the 1990s, QuickTime became a dominant standard for digital multimedia, as it was integrated into many websites, applications, and video games, and adopted by professional filmmakers. The QuickTime File Format became the basis for the MPEG-4 standard. During its heyday, QuickTime was notably used to create the innovative ''Myst'' and '' Xplora1'' video games, and to exclusively distribute mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crossopriza Lyoni Video
''Crossopriza'' is a genus of cellar spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1893. Species it contains twenty-four species, found in Africa, Asia, Australia, the Americas, Germany and Micronesia: *'' Crossopriza dhofar'' Huber, 2022 – Oman *'' Crossopriza ghul'' Huber, 2022 – Oman *'' Crossopriza ibnsinai'' Huber, 2022 – Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan *'' Crossopriza illizi'' Huber, 2022 – Algeria *'' Crossopriza johncloudsleyi'' Deeleman-Reinhold & van Harten, 2001 – Yemen, Kenya *'' Crossopriza kandahar'' Huber, 2022 – Afghanistan *'' Crossopriza khayyami'' Huber, 2022 – Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan *'' Crossopriza kittan'' Huber, 2022 – Oman *'' Crossopriza lyoni'' ( Blackwall, 1867) – Probably Africa and/or Asia. Introduced to the Americas, Germany, Australia, Micronesia *'' Crossopriza maculipes'' (Spassky, 1934) – Iraq, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan *'' Cross ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antarctica
Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean (also known as the Antarctic Ocean), it contains the geographic South Pole. Antarctica is the fifth-largest continent, being about 40% larger than Europe, and has an area of . Most of Antarctica is covered by the Antarctic ice sheet, with an average thickness of . Antarctica is, on average, the coldest, driest, and windiest of the continents, and it has the highest average elevation. It is mainly a polar desert, with annual Climate of Antarctica#Precipitation, precipitation of over along the coast and far less inland. About 70% of the world's freshwater reserves are frozen in Antarctica, which, if melted, would raise global sea levels by almost . Antarctica holds the record for the Lowest temperature recorded on Earth, lowest measured temperature on Earth, . The coastal regions can reach temperatures over in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Artema Atlanta
''Artema atlanta'' is a species of spider of the family Pholcidae with a pantropical distribution. It is commonly known as the giant daddy-long-legs spider, in Australia and South Africa. With a body length of 8–11 mm, it is the largest pholcid in the world. Description Specimens of both sexes have a body length of 8–11 mm. Their first pair of legs is roughly 6.5 times the length of the body. Distribution ''A. atlanta'' can be found in all tropical regions, such as the Seychelles, India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Vietnam and Brazil. It can be found on every continent (apart from Antarctica). It has been introduced into Belgium (Antwerp), and North America, where (as of 2009) colonies can be found in southern Arizona and southeastern California in the United States The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal republic of 50 U.S. state, states and a federal ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spermophorides Lascars
''Spermophorides lascars'' is a species of spiders of the family Pholcidae. The species is endemic to Silhouette Island of Seychelles Seychelles (, ; ), officially the Republic of Seychelles (; Seychellois Creole: ), is an island country and archipelagic state consisting of 155 islands (as per the Constitution) in the Indian Ocean. Its capital and largest city, Victoria, .... References Pholcidae Spiders described in 2001 Spiders of Africa Endemic fauna of Seychelles {{Pholcidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
