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Pholcidae Crossopriza

Crossopriza lyoni (Blackwall, 1867)

Common House Daddy-Long-Legs

This is a common household spider with a characteristic small conical extension at the upper posterior end of the short and trapezoid abdomen (in side view). The carapace has a deep excavation. Even by daddy-long-legs standards, this is a particularly long-legged species: legs I of the male are more than nine times the length of the body.

Length♀ 5–6 mm; ♂ 5–6 mm
Type Locality Delhi, India
DistributionWorldwide, including Singapore, Malaysia (Peninsular Malaysia, Sabah), Brunei, China, India.
HabitatDry and neglected corners of residential quarters.

Taxonomy

Type Deposits*

  1. Holotype

    Museo del Instituto de Zoología Agrícola (MIZA), Universidad Central de Venezuela, Maracay, Venezuela; ♂ (MAGS 1314a) of Tibiosa casanaimensis; lost per Huber & Villarreal, 2020: 57 (González-Sponga, 2006)

  2. Holotype

    Museo del Instituto de Zoología Agrícola (MIZA), Universidad Central de Venezuela, Maracay, Venezuela; ♂ (105741 = MAGS 1286) of Tibiosa caracensis (Huber & Villarreal, 2020)

  3. Holotype

    Museo del Instituto de Zoología Agrícola (MIZA), Universidad Central de Venezuela, Maracay, Venezuela; ♂ (105819 = MAGS 1355) of Tibiosa moraensis (Huber & Villarreal, 2020)

  4. Holotype

    Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France; Juvenile (not found) of Crossopriza nigrescens (Huber, 2022)

  5. Holotype

    Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France; ♂ of Crossopriza francoisi (Huber, 2022)

  6. Holotype

    Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France; ♀ of Crossopriza stridulans (Huber, 2022)

  7. Paratype

    Museo del Instituto de Zoología Agrícola (MIZA), Universidad Central de Venezuela, Maracay, Venezuela; 3♀ 4 Juvenile (MAGS 1314a) of Tibiosa casanaimensis; lost per Huber & Villarreal, 2020: 57 (González-Sponga, 2006)

  8. Paratype

    Museo del Instituto de Zoología Agrícola (MIZA), Universidad Central de Venezuela, Maracay, Venezuela; 3♂ 5♀ 5 Juvenile (105706 = MAGS 1379) of Tibiosa caracensis (Huber & Villarreal, 2020)

  9. Paratype

    Museo del Instituto de Zoología Agrícola (MIZA), Universidad Central de Venezuela, Maracay, Venezuela; 3♀ 5 Juvenile (105819 = MAGS 1355) of Tibiosa moraensis (Huber & Villarreal, 2020)

  10. Syntype

    Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil; 1♂ 1♀ 1 Juvenile (42313, destroyed by the fire 2018, database excerpt, August 2019) of Crossopriza brasiliensis (Huber, 2022)

  11. Syntype

    Museo del Instituto de Zoología Agrícola (MIZA), Universidad Central de Venezuela, Maracay, Venezuela; 30♂ 30♀ [approximately] (105735 = MAGS 1418) of Tibiosa coreana (Huber & Villarreal, 2020)

  12. Syntype

    Museo del Instituto de Zoología Agrícola (MIZA), Universidad Central de Venezuela, Maracay, Venezuela; 2♂ 1♀ 2 Juvenile (105705 = MAGS 1303) of Tibiosa guayanesa (Huber & Villarreal, 2020)

  13. Syntype

    ; ♂♂ jj (possibly lost) (Huber, 2022)

  14. Syntype

    Museo de La Plata (MLP), La Plata, Argentina; 1♀ 1 Juvenile of Crossopriza mucronata (Huber, 2022)

Taxonomic references*

  1. Pholcus lyoni (Original description ♂♀)

    Blackwall, 1867a Descriptions of several species of East Indian spiders, apparently to be new or little known to arachnologists: 392 doi:10.1080/00222936708562695

  2. Smeringopus lyoni

    Thorell, 1895b Descriptive catalogue of the spiders of Burma, based upon the collection made by Eugene W. Oates and preserved in the British Museum: 70 doi:10.5962/bhl.title.17492

  3. Crossopriza lyoni

    Pocock, 1900a The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Arachnida: 240 doi:10.5962/bhl.title.48423

  4. Crossopriza lyoni (♂♀)

    Dyal, 1935 Fauna of Lahore: 168, pl. 15, f. 90-96

  5. Crossopriza brasiliensis (Original description ♂♀)

    Mello-Leitão, 1935a Three interesting new Brasilian spiders: 94, f. 13

  6. Crossopriza mucronata (Original description ♀)

    Mello-Leitão, 1942b Arañas del Chaco y Santiago del Estero: 389, f. 1-2

  7. Crossopriza nigrescens (Original description j)

    Millot, 1946a Les pholcides de Madagascar (Aranéides): 155, f. 30A

  8. Crossopriza lyoni (♂♀)

    Zhu & Wang, 1963a [Chinese Pholcidae and a new species]: 462, f. 4, 7-8

  9. Crossopriza lyoni (♂♀)

    Chrysanthus, 1967b Spiders from south New Guinea IX: 96, f. 20-24

  10. Crossopriza lyoni (♀)

    Tikader & Biswas, 1981 Spider fauna of Calcutta and vicinity: Part-I: 18, f. 13-15

  11. Crossopriza lyoni (♂♀)

    Yaginuma, 1986a Spiders of Japan in color (new ed: 31, f. 17.5

  12. Crossopriza lyoni (♂♀)

    Kim, 1988 One species of genus Crossopriza (Araneae: Pholcidae) from southern Asia: 35, f. 1-6

  13. Crossopriza lyoni (♂♀)

    Chikuni, 1989b Pictorial encyclopedia of spiders in Japan: 29, f. 7

  14. Crossopriza lyoni (♂♀)

    Chen & Zhang, 1991 Fauna of Zhejiang: Araneida: 72, f. 62.1-3

  15. Crossopriza lyoni (♂♀, Synonym of Crossopriza brasiliensis, C. francoisi, C. mucronata and C. stridulans)

    Huber, Deeleman-Reinhold & Pérez, 1999 The spider genus Crossopriza (Araneae, Pholcidae) in the New World: 2, f. 1-12

  16. Crossopriza lyoni (♂♀)

    Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999 The spiders of China: 52, f. 22H-O

  17. Crossopriza lyoni

    Huber, 2000 New World pholcid spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae): A revision at generic level: 30, f doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2000)254<0001:NWPSAP>2.0.CO;2

  18. Crossopriza lyoni (♂♀)

    Deeleman-Reinhold & van Harten, 2001 Description of some interesting, new or little known Pholcidae (Araneae) from Yemen: 195, f. 5-6

  19. Crossopriza lyoni (♂♀)

    Van Keer & Van Keer, 2001 Ingeburgerde exotische trilspinnen (Araneae: Pholcidae) in Antwerpse haven en enkele algemene bedenkingen bij spinnenmigratie: 83, f. 2.1-8

  20. Crossopriza lyoni (♂♀)

    Irie, 2001 Notes on the pholcid spider, Crossopriza lyoni (Blackwall 1867): 7, f. 1-8

  21. Tibiosa moraensis (Original description ♂♀)

    González-Sponga, 2006 Arácnidos de Venezuela: 23, pl. 5, f. 1-9

  22. Crossopriza lyoni (♂♀)

    Beatty, Berry & Huber, 2008 The pholcid spiders of Micronesia and Polynesia (Araneae, Pholcidae): 9, f. 17-18, 47-48 doi:10.1636/H05-66.1

  23. Crossopriza lyoni (♂)

    Colmenares-García, 2008 Tres nuevos registros para la araneofauna Venezolana (Arachnida, Araneae, Pholcidae): 88, f. 2A-C

  24. Crossopriza lyoni (♂♀)

    Irie, 2009 Pholcidae: 106, f. 3-5

  25. Crossopriza lyoni (Synonym of Tibiosa caracensis, T. casanaimensis, T. coreana, T. guayanesa and T. moraensis)

    Huber, 2009a Four new generic and 14 new specific synonymies in Pholcidae, and transfer of Pholcoides Roewer to Filistatidae (Araneae): 65 doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1970.1.3

  26. Crossopriza lyoni (♂♀)

    Yin et al., 2012 Fauna Hunan: Araneae in Hunan, China: 163, f. 30a-h

  27. Crossopriza lyoni (♀)

    Sen et al., 2015 Spiders (Araneae: Arachnida) of reserve forests of Dooars: Gorumara National Park, Chapramari Wildlife Sanctuary and Mahananda Wildlife Sanctuary: 88, f. 514-518, pl. 19

  28. Crossopriza lyoni (♂♀)

    Bauer et al., 2016 Crossopriza lyoni new to Germany (Araneae: Pholcidae): 4, f. 1-7 doi:10.5431/aramit5202

  29. Crossopriza lyoni (♂♀, Synonym of Crossopriza nigrescens)

    Huber, 2022 Revisions of Holocnemus and Crossopriza: the spotted-leg clade of Smeringopinae (Araneae, Pholcidae): 193, f. 702-705, 783-805 doi:10.5852/ejt.2022.795.1663

  30. Crossopriza lyoni (♂♀)

    Bourque et al., 2022 Premières mentions canadiennes de Crossopriza lyoni (Blackwall 1867) (Pholcidae), une espèce introduite en Amérique du Nord: 28, f. 1-11

  31. Crossopriza lyoni (♀)

    Suzuki, 2022b [A list of spiders collected from Okinawa islands (Okinawa-jima, Sesoko-jima, Ikê-jima, Yabuchi-jima and Kume-jima islands), Japan]: 193, f. 16-17

  32. Crossopriza lyoni (♂♀)

    Suzuki & Tsuji, 2023 A list of spiders collected from rice polishing machines in Shikoku, Japan: 65, f. 2A-D

  33. Crossopriza lyoni (♀)

    Alcántar-Valenzuela et al., 2024 Current knowledge of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Sinaloa, Mexico: species checklist and new records, including the first record of Plexippus petersi Karsch, 1878 for America: 12, f. 13-15 doi:10.21829/azm.2024.4012671

  34. Crossopriza lyoni (♀)

    Okumura, 2024 Current status of two alien species of spiders in Nagasaki Prefecture: 4, f. 8-9

  35. Crossopriza lyoni (♂♀)

    Murcia-Moreno & Gálvez, 2025 Introduced spiders in Panama: species distributions and new records: 3, f. 2A-E doi:10.3390/biology14010004

* Retrieved from the World Spider Catalog.

Distribution Map for Crossopriza lyoni (Blackwall, 1867)

Worldwide, including Singapore, Malaysia (Peninsular Malaysia, Sabah), Brunei, China, India.

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