The only spider species he described (as Fuesslin, 1775) is the daddy long-legs spider, Pholcus phalangioides, also known as cellar spider.
An urban legend states that Pholcidae are the most venomous spiders in the world, but this claim has been proven untrue.
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The cellar spider (Pholcus phalangioides), also known as the skull spider due to its cephalothorax looking like a human skull, is a spider of the family Pholcidae.
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This is the only spider species described by the Swiss entomologist Johann Kaspar Füssli who first recorded it for science in 1775.