ユウレイグモ

noun

pholcid spider; cellar spider

Refers to spiders of the family Pholcidae, especially the common species Pholcus crypticolens. In everyday Japanese, this is the primary meaning.

• 天てん井じょうの隅すみにユウレイグモが巣すを作つくっている。

  A cellar spider has built a web in the corner of the ceiling.

noun

harvestman; daddy longlegs

Colloquial use for harvestmen (order Opiliones), which are not spiders. Often confused with the spider sense; context usually clarifies.

See also: ざとうむし

• ユウレイグモって呼よんでるけど、あれは本ほん当とうのクモじゃないんだよ。

  We call it a daddy longlegs, but that's not actually a spider.