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- Phalangium opilio (also known as the common harvestman, brown harvestman and daddy longlegs) is a species of harvestman belonging to the family Phalangiidae.
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Phalangium opilio (also known as the common harvestman, brown harvestman and daddy longlegs) is a species of harvestman belonging to the family Phalangiidae.
- P. opilio
- Phalangium
Scientific name: Phalangium opilio. The Common harvestman is familiar to us as the large, spindly spider-like creature that frequents gardens and houses. It predates on smaller invertebrates which it catches using hooks on the ends of its legs. Species information. Category. Spiders. Statistics. Body length: up to 8mm. Leg span: up to 5cm.
Phalangium opilio. (Arachnida: Opiliones, Phalangiidae) Harvestman, Daddy longlegs, Harvest spider. Of the many species of harvestmen known, P. opilio tends to be the most common in relatively disturbed habitats such as most crops in temperate regions. Like the spiders and most adult mites, harvestmen have two major body sections and eight legs ...
Mar 14, 2024 · Despite its two-eyed appearance, Phalangium opilio has six peepers. The four extra eyes — leftovers of evolution — shed light on the evolutionary history of daddy longlegs....
Aug 4, 2021 · We assembled the first harvestman draft genome for the species Phalangium opilio, which bears elongate, prehensile appendages, made possible by numerous distal articles called tarsomeres. Here, we show that the genome of P. opilio exhibits a single Hox cluster and no evidence of WGD.
- Guilherme Gainett, Vanessa L. González, Jesús A. Ballesteros, Emily V. W. Setton, Caitlin M. Baker, ...
- 2021
Explanation of Names. Phalangium opilio Linnaeus 1758. Size. Adult body ~3.5–3.9 mm, with males generally smaller than females. Identification. Males have a large spur/horn on the anterior surface of the first cheliceral segment. Males also tend to have long, thin pedipalps relative to those of other harvestmen.
Phalangium opilio is a common and widespread species which becomes more coastal in Scotland. It is unclear when this species was first recorded in Britain but the first HRS record is from Glanvilles Wooton in Dorset prior to 1878. It is widely distributed across Europe, including southern Sweden.
