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Wine cellar spider

Psilochorus simoni (Berland, 1911)

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The wine cellar spider (Psilochorus simoni) is a species in the family Pholcidae, order Araneae. Recorded adults reach 2.6 mm in length. Source checklists list it for 1 country: Guatemala.

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Quick facts about the wine cellar spider

Weight
Not recorded
Length
2.6 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 the wine cellar spider?

WINE CELLAR SPIDER · LENGTH 2.6 MMADULT HUMAN · HEIGHT 1.7 M
At 2.6 mm, the recorded maximum length of the wine cellar spider is about 0.2% of the height of an adult human (1.7 m, a fixed reference used for scale).

Where does the wine cellar spider 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.

The wine cellar spider is listed for 1 country.

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

The same countries as a list

  1. Guatemala

Why a country list is not a range map

Where has it been introduced?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the wine cellar spider as introduced in 6 countries.

  1. Austria
  2. Denmark
  3. Germany
  4. Poland
  5. Slovenia
  6. United Kingdom

Introduced means brought by people and now present; invasive means the country's checklist records an impact. A species can be native to one part of a country and introduced in another. Source: Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (CC BY 4.0).

Is the wine cellar spider 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 the wine cellar spider classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classArachnida
  4. orderAraneae
  5. familyPholcidae
  6. genusPsilochorus
  7. SpeciesPsilochorus simoni (Berland, 1911)

Synonyms Physocyclus simoni, Psilochorus rotundus, Psilochorus simplicior

Other names and names in other languages (11)
  • třesavka SimonovaCzech
  • Lille mejeredderkopDanish
  • Amerikanische ZitterspinneGerman
  • sinivaaksikkiFinnish
  • Pholque de SimonFrench
  • zöld kis-álkaszáspókHungarian
  • smålangbeinedderkoppNorwegian Bokmål
  • Kleine trilspinDutch
  • trasavka SimonovaSlovak
  • mindre dallerspindelSwedish
  • turkos dallerspindelSwedish

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of the wine cellar spider

Other species in the same genus Psilochorus.

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

How big is the wine cellar spider?

An adult wine cellar spider measures 2.6 mm long, according to values recorded on Wikidata.

Where does the wine cellar spider live?

Catalogue of Life checklists list the wine cellar spider for 1 country: Guatemala. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.

Is the wine cellar spider an invasive species?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the wine cellar spider as introduced in 6 countries, including Austria, Denmark, Germany, Poland and Slovenia, but does not flag it as invasive in any of them.

What kind of animal is the wine cellar spider?

The wine cellar spider (Psilochorus simoni) belongs to the family Pholcidae in the order Araneae.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-14. How this page is put together.

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BibTeX
@misc{wine_cellar_spider_2026,
  title = {Wine cellar spider (Psilochorus simoni)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/wine-cellar-spider},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}