Tags: Arachnid.
The cellar spider (Pholcus phalangioides) also known as the skull spider due to its cephalothorax looking like a human skull is a spider of the family Pholcidae. Females have a body length of about 9 mm; males are slightly smaller. Its legs are about 5 or 6 times the length of its body (reaching up to 7 cm of leg span in females). Its habit of living on the ceilings of rooms caves garages or cellars gives rise to one of its common names.
