# Holocnemus pluchei - Palestine

Pholcus phalangioides, also known as the longbodied cellar spider is a spider of the family Pholcidae. It is also known as the skull spider due its cephalothorax resembling a human skull.

Females have a body length of about 9 mm and males are slightly smaller. The length of its legs are about 5 or 6 times the length of its body (reaching a legspan up to 7 cm in females).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pholcus_phalangioides

- Kind: Short
- Year: 2018
- Runtime: 1 min
- By: Ala'a Najjar
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Holocnemus_pluchei_-_Palestine.webm)
- Licence or status: [CC BY 3.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0) (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Ala'a Najjar
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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