A worldwide community photographing and learning about wildlife
Phalangium opilio
A type of arachnid from the order Opiliones. Opiliones is a distinct order that is not closely related to spiders within Arachnida. They can be easily distinguished from even long-legged spiders by their fused body regions and single pair of eyes in the middle of their cephalothorax (spiders have an 'abdomen' that is separated from the cephalothorax by a constriction, as well as three to four pairs of eyes, usually around the margins of their cephalothorax).
Heverleebos.
4 Comments
It may have been half my hand, counting the length of its legs :-)
oi, it looks huge :) Very cool!
¡Gracias Patricia! A mi tambien. Fijate, con el frio que hacia en el bosque y ahi estaba, tan pancho :-)
me encantan los Opiliones!