#4207 · 🕷️ spiders & kin
Labyrinth spider
🇳🇱 Gewone doolhofspin ·Agelena labyrinthica
🕷️ Spiders & kin 📍 in the Netherlands
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what is it?
Agelena labyrinthica is a species of spiders in the family Agelenidae.
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 185 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #22 most seen of the spiders & kin in NL.
- 12,893 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Carl Alexander Clerck in 1757 (269 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Labyrinth spider
- Nederlands
- Gewone doolhofspin
- scientific name
- Agelena labyrinthica
- class
- Arachnida
- order
- Araneae
- family
- Agelenidae
- sightings in NL
- 185
- sightings in Europe
- 7,510
- sightings worldwide
- 12,893
- GBIF records in NL
- 2,370
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1757 by Carl Alexander Clerck
relatives· Agelenidae
#4204 📷 10Toothed Weaver
🇳🇱 Gewone staartspin
Textrix denticulata
👀 220 in NL
#4209 📷 10Giant House Spider
🇳🇱 Gewone huisspin
Eratigena atrica
👀 150 in NL
#4329 📷 10Barn Funnel Weaver
🇳🇱 Grijze Huisspin
Tegenaria domestica
👀 9 in NL
#4340 📷 10Kleine Doolhofspin
Allagelena gracilens
👀 4 in NL
#4345 📷 8Charcoal Spider
🇳🇱 Bonte Trechterspin
Tegenaria ferruginea
👀 2 in NL
#4349 📷 10Giant House Spider
Eratigena duellica
👀 1 in NL
#4390 📷 7Lycosoides coarctata
Lycosoides coarctata
🌍 2.1k seen
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 130304, Wikidata Q1315295, GBIF 2139576, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.