#3561 · 🐝 bees, wasps & ants
Potter Spider Wasp
🇳🇱 Koolzwarte Metselspinnendoder ·Auplopus carbonarius
🐝 Bees, wasps & ants 📍 in the Netherlands
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Roman Prokhorov · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © carnifex · CC BY 4.0
- 3. © carnifex · CC BY 4.0
- 4. © carnifex · CC BY 4.0
- 5. © Matthew Wilkinson · CC0
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- 7. © Gábor Keresztes · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. © Gábor Keresztes · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © Roman Prokhorov · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. © Sergio Ibarra · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Auplopus carbonarius is a spider wasp of the family Pompilidae. Uniquely among the British group it constructs a nest of barrel-shaped cells in which spiders are stored and the larvae develop.
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 74 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 2,541 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Potter Spider Wasp
- Nederlands
- Koolzwarte Metselspinnendoder
- scientific name
- Auplopus carbonarius
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Hymenoptera
- family
- Pompilidae
- in NL
- native
- sightings in NL
- 74
- sightings in Europe
- 1,478
- sightings worldwide
- 2,541
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
relatives· Pompilidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 466448, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.