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TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 2 months ago
For those who might be confused, “daddy longlegs” colloquially refers to two totally separate things. Spiders are of the order Araneae under class Arachnida (they’re arachnids; go figure).
“Daddy longlegs” often refers to cellar spiders, the family Pholcidae within the spiders. However, “daddy longlegs” also refers to another order of arachnids altogether called Opiliones, also known as harvestmen. So if this doesn’t look like the daddy longlegs you know, that’s why; they’re not a “different type” of the cellar spider you’re familiar with.
sartalon@lemmy.world 2 months ago
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Funnily enough, that Unidan copypasta is 100% correct. I don’t know why, for as long-winded as it is, though, he doesn’t use use more taxonomic names to make it precise: jackdaws are in genus Coloeus, and crows and ravens are in genus Corvus, both under family Corvidae. The apes are the primate superfamily Hominoidea, which Homo sapiens sits under. There, Unidan; that’s all you had to say.
sartalon@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I thought he was a great contributer. It was disappointing to see it fall apart like that.
Madison420@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It was never that they were wrong it was that they lost it and harassed someone at length and with alts about birds.
JayGray91@piefed.social 2 months ago
man, a unidan reference. a simpler time when I was ignorant using reddit.
remon@ani.social 2 months ago
Make that 3 things: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crane_fly
warm@kbin.earth 2 months ago
Also crane flies!
Deebster@infosec.pub 2 months ago
That’s what I think of when I hear The name Daddy Longlegs. Wikipedia tells me that they’re called “Jenny long legs” in Scotland and Pilib an Gheataire (“Skinny Philip”) in Irish.