#4368 · 🕷️ spiders & kin

Tropical Tent-web Spider

🇳🇱 Visnetspin ·Cyrtophora citricola

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

1. © Andrés E. Ríos Saldaña · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Olaf Leillinger · CC BY-SA 4.0
3. © Ísis Meri Medri · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © diannedrummond · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Yannick Juvé · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Andrés E. Ríos Saldaña · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © David Marquina Reyes · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
8. © Anna C · CC0
9. © 0959kedi · CC0

what is it?

Cyrtophora citricola , also known as the Tropical Tent-Web Spider, is an araneid spider that occurs in the warmer parts of Europe, Asia and Africa, but also Australia, Costa Rica, Hispaniola and Colombia. It can now also be found in other parts, such as Florida, where it was first found in 2000.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 10,920iNaturalist 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

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
10,920 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Peter Forsskål in 1775 (251 years ago).