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Herfststrooiselspin

Cicurina cicur

🕷️ Spiders & kin 📍 in the Netherlands
Herfststrooiselspin, photo 1 of 10
1/10 © mazeson · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Cicurina cicur is a spider species found in Europe to Central Asia.

base stats

  • NL sightings 9iNaturalist, research grade
  • worldwide 953iNaturalist 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 9 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
  • 953 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
  • Scientifically named by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1793 (233 years ago).

fact sheet

Nederlands
Herfststrooiselspin
scientific name
Cicurina cicur
class
Arachnida
order
Araneae
family
Cicurinidae
sightings in NL
9
sightings in Europe
572
sightings worldwide
953
GBIF records in NL
166
weight
—
length
—
lifespan
—
named
1793 by Johan Christian Fabricius

Sources: iNaturalist taxon 446772, Wikidata Q1765826, GBIF 2144463, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.

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