#4369 · 🕷️ spiders & kin
Oak Spider
🇳🇱 Eikenbladspin ·Aculepeira ceropegia
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what is it?
Aculepeira ceropegia , the oak spider , is an orb-weaving spider species belonging to the family Araneidae.
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
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 10,054 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Charles Athanase Walckenaer in 1802 (224 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Oak Spider
- Nederlands
- Eikenbladspin
- scientific name
- Aculepeira ceropegia
- class
- Arachnida
- order
- Araneae
- family
- Araneidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 7,634
- sightings worldwide
- 10,054
- GBIF records in NL
- 9
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1802 by Charles Athanase Walckenaer
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#4208 📷 7Cricket-bat Orbweaver
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👀 179 in NL
#4211 📷 10Zilla Orbweaver
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#4212 📷 10Furrow Orbweaver
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Sources: iNaturalist taxon 121775, Wikidata Q1301286, GBIF 2159474, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.