Spider for ID Please?

EyeSpy · #1 (**permalink**) 02-09-2010, 10:54 PM

Funny thing with flat legs, I have never seen a spider like it before. What is it please?

2dogs2000 · #2 (**permalink**) 02-09-2010, 11:01 PM

I can tell you it is not a spider. It is an opilone (harvestman).

This is purely a guess but it might be Phalangium opilio. Hope someone can help you with a positive i.d.

EyeSpy · #3 (**permalink**) 02-09-2010, 11:07 PM

How interesting...I had never heard of those before you posted. Thanks very much!

John_M · #4 (**permalink**) 02-09-2010, 11:24 PM

I think with those very long legs it might be Dicranopalpus ramosus.
Eyespy, the easiest way to recognise a harvestman is that they have one body segment, whereas a spider has two. Harvestmen (usually) have longer thinner legs. Harvestmen have two eyes, on the top of the body, most spiders have eight eyes, sometimes six.