#4318 · 🕷️ spiders & kin
Grey House Spider
🇳🇱 Australische huisspin ·Badumna longinqua
🕷️ Spiders & kin 📍 in the Netherlands
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Tony Iwane · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Pete McGregor · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 3. © Steve Lew · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 4. © Ken-ichi Ueda · CC BY 4.0
- 5. © Steve Kerr · CC BY 4.0
- 6. © K Schneider · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © Tony Iwane · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. © callum-blackwood · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © Sebastián Fornés · CC BY 4.0
- 10. © Marshal Hedin · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
what is it?
Badumna longinqua is a species of spider in the family Desidae. Native to Eastern Australia, it has been introduced into New Zealand, Japan, the United States, Mexico, and Uruguay.
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 11 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 12,726 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Ludwig Carl Christian Koch in 1867 (159 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Grey House Spider
- Nederlands
- Australische huisspin
- scientific name
- Badumna longinqua
- class
- Arachnida
- order
- Araneae
- family
- Desidae
- sightings in NL
- 11
- sightings in Europe
- 91
- sightings worldwide
- 12,726
- GBIF records in NL
- 75
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1867 by Ludwig Carl Christian Koch
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 47135, Wikidata Q3214653, GBIF 2142995, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.