This page displays the six Arthropod records currently available within the Entophiles database. Select one of the thumbnail photographs of spiders and a tailless whip-scorpion below to access the descriptive record for this non-insect arthropod. Members of the Phylum Arthropoda contain the Class Insecta and many related animals frequently mistaken for insects. Spiders are among these relatives and can be distinguished from their insect kin by their eight rather than six legs. They also have two body segments comprised of a cephalothorax and abdomen as apposed to an insects three main body segments of a head, thorax, and abdomen.