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There are many arachnids that shares the common name. Opiliones, or harvestmen, is what you are referring to. But a family of spider, phoclcidae or cellar spiders, spin webs and does whatever a spider does.
Yep the common name is regional. "Daddy longlegs" can also sometimes refer to crane flies, aka mosquito hawks/mosquito eaters
Those things are so comically annoying
Especially if you have cats that like to knock shit off tables and shelves while attempting to enforce castle doctrine on them flies.