#3543 · 🐝 bees, wasps & ants
Black-banded Spider Wasp
🇳🇱 Roodzwarte borstelspinnendoder ·Anoplius viaticus
📍 Hilversum, Nederland
📍 Drunen, Netherlands
📍 Loonse and Drunense Dunes National Park, Drunen, North Brabant, NL
📍 2114 Vogelenzang, Netherlands
📍 6075 Herkenbosch, Niederlande
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Mateusz Sowiński · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Erland Refling Nielsen · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Michael Knapp · CC BY 4.0
- 4. © Philip Mark Osso · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Milo "Bulle" van Loon · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. Hilversum, Nederland:© Robbert van 't Veldt · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Drunen, Netherlands:© Lars Willighagen · CC BY 4.0
- 8. Loonse and Drunense Dunes National Park, Drunen, North Brabant, NL:© no rights reserved · CC0
- 9. 2114 Vogelenzang, Netherlands:© Milo "Bulle" van Loon · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. 6075 Herkenbosch, Niederlande:© Peter Bönnen · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Anoplius viaticus , commonly known as the black-banded spider wasp , is a species of spider wasp. These wasps are known as spider wasps because the females capture spiders to provide their offspring with food. The paralysed spider is cached in a burrow, the wasp lays an egg on it, and when this hatches, the developing wasp larva consumes the spider. This species is found in sandy heathland across most of Europe.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- Spotted 124 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #41 most seen of the bees, wasps & ants in NL.
- 2,329 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Black-banded Spider Wasp
- Nederlands
- Roodzwarte borstelspinnendoder
- scientific name
- Anoplius viaticus
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Hymenoptera
- family
- Pompilidae
- sightings in NL
- 124
- sightings in Europe
- 1,850
- sightings worldwide
- 2,329
- GBIF records in NL
- 6,097
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
relatives· Pompilidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 461636, Wikidata Q1472112, GBIF 4505565, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.