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Pholcus creticus

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Pholcus creticus is a species in the family Pholcidae, order Araneae. Recorded adults reach 3.6 mm in length. Source checklists list it for 1 country: Greece.

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Quick facts about Pholcus creticus

Weight
Not recorded
Length
3 mm – 3.6 mm
Lifespan
Not recorded
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
rocky
Young per litter or clutch
Not recorded
Conservation status
Not recorded
Countries on record
1 countrysrc for Countries on record

How big is Pholcus creticus?

PHOLCUS CRETICUS · LENGTH 3.6 MMADULT HUMAN · HEIGHT 1.7 M
At 3.6 mm, the recorded maximum length of the pholcus creticus is about 0.2% of the height of an adult human (1.7 m, a fixed reference used for scale).

Where does Pholcus creticus live?

Countries where Catalogue of Life checklists list the species. Many checklists carry no country data, so the list is often incomplete. It is not a range map.

Pholcus creticus is listed for 1 country.

Greece
  • Listed
  • Not listed
small islands are not drawn at this scale

The same countries as a list

  1. Greece

Why a country list is not a range map

Is Pholcus creticus endangered?

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

How is Pholcus creticus classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classArachnida
  4. orderAraneae
  5. familyPholcidae
  6. genusPholcus
  7. SpeciesPholcus creticus Senglet, 1971
Other names and names in other languages (1)
  • třesavka krétskáCzech

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of Pholcus creticus

Other species in the same genus Pholcus.

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Common questions

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How big is Pholcus creticus?

An adult Pholcus creticus measures 3 mm – 3.6 mm long, according to values recorded on Wikidata.

Where does Pholcus creticus live?

Catalogue of Life checklists list Pholcus creticus for 1 country: Greece. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.

What kind of animal is Pholcus creticus?

Pholcus creticus (Pholcus creticus) belongs to the family Pholcidae in the order Araneae.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-11. How this page is put together.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Pholcus creticus (Pholcus creticus). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/pholcus-creticus

MLA

“Pholcus creticus (Pholcus creticus).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/pholcus-creticus.

BibTeX
@misc{pholcus_creticus_2026,
  title = {Pholcus creticus (Pholcus creticus)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/pholcus-creticus},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}