#4213 · 🕷️ spiders & kin

Oak Jumping Spider

🇳🇱 Eikenspringspin ·Ballus chalybeius

🕷️ Spiders & kin 📍 in the Netherlands

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Анатолий Озерной /Anatoliy Ozernoy · CC BY-SA 4.0
2. © portioid · CC BY 4.0
3. © Jakob Fahr · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Keith Martin-Smith · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
5. © portioid · CC BY 4.0
6. 3701 BM Zeist, Netherlands:© Michiel de Groot · CC BY 4.0
7. 2036 GP Haarlem, Netherlands:© tracad · CC BY 4.0
8. Wageningen, Nederland:© André Nagelhout · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Hilversum, Nederland:© 05gi02el03 · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. 6708 DE Wageningen, Netherlands:© Pádraic Flood · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

what is it?

Ballus chalybeius is a jumping spider. It is the type species of the genus Ballus .

base stats

NL sightings 119iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 2,709iNaturalist observations

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 119 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #28 most seen of the spiders & kin in NL.
2,709 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Charles Athanase Walckenaer in 1802 (224 years ago).