#4197 · 🕷️ spiders & kin

Fork-palped Harvestman

🇳🇱 Strekpoot ·Dicranopalpus ramosus

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

1. © Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas · CC BY 4.0
2. © Hubert Szymanski · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © bramblejungle · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas · CC BY 4.0
5. © jfb22 · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. 4021 Maurik, Nederland:© Marsel · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Wilhelminaoord, Nederland:© teddydolstra · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Groesbeek, Nederland:© Herman Berteler · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Groesbeek, Nederland:© Herman Berteler · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Utrecht:© nate_eolin · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Dicranopalpus ramosus is a species of harvestman. Males are up to 4 mm long, females can reach up to 6 mm. Both sexes have very long legs (especially the second pair can reach up to 5 cm), with a distinct elongated apophysis that reaches almost to the end of the tibia. This makes their pedipalps look forked. Their body is brownish with dark markings, the females being lighter colored.

base stats

NL sightings 454iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 8,572iNaturalist 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 454 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #12 most seen of the spiders & kin in NL.
8,572 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Eugène Simon in 1909 (117 years ago).