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title: "Giant Cellar Spider"
description: "Artema atlanta — Insects & spiders. Artema atlanta is a species of spider of the family Pholcidae with a pantropical distribution."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/giant-cellar-spider
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Giant Cellar Spider

> Artema atlanta — Insects & spiders. Artema atlanta is a species of spider of the family Pholcidae with a pantropical distribution.

- Scientific name: *Artema atlanta*
- Category: `insects` (Insects & spiders)
- Habitats: `urban` (Towns & gardens)
- iNaturalist observations: 963
- Wikidata: [Q4323544](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4323544)
- iNaturalist taxon: [263817](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/263817)

## Names

- en: Giant Cellar Spider
- es: Araña patona gigante

## Countries with the most observations

US (97), ZA (72), BR (67), IN (52), BW (45), MX (40), AU (39), ZW (31), LK (12), TW (12), MZ (10), ZM (6)

## Summary

Artema atlanta is a species of spider of the family Pholcidae with a pantropical distribution. It is commonly known as the giant daddy-long-legs spider, in Australia and South Africa. With a body length of 8–11 mm, it is the largest pholcid in the world.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artema_atlanta

## Photo

![Giant Cellar Spider](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/giant-cellar-spider/medium.jpg)

Photo: Jonathan Whitaker · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/38422508

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/giant-cellar-spider?lang=en` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).