#4335 · 🕷️ spiders & kin
Triangle Crab Spider
🇳🇱 Struikkameleonspin ·Ebrechtella tricuspidata
🕷️ Spiders & kin 📍 in the Netherlands
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what is it?
Ebrechtella tricuspidata is a species of crab spiders belonging to the family Thomisidae....
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 8 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 10,617 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1775 (251 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Triangle Crab Spider
- Nederlands
- Struikkameleonspin
- scientific name
- Ebrechtella tricuspidata
- class
- Arachnida
- order
- Araneae
- family
- Thomisidae
- sightings in NL
- 8
- sightings in Europe
- 8,244
- sightings worldwide
- 10,617
- GBIF records in NL
- 513
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1775 by Johan Christian Fabricius
relatives· Thomisidae
#4198 📷 9Goldenrod Crab Spider
🇳🇱 Kameleonspin
Misumena vatia
👀 365 in NL
#4223 📷 10Eurasian Green Crab Spider
🇳🇱 Groene krabspin
Diaea dorsata
👀 82 in NL
#4235 📷 10Swamp Crab Spider
🇳🇱 Moeraskrabspin
Xysticus ulmi
👀 65 in NL
#4289 📷 10Schorskrabspin
Tmarus piger
👀 16 in NL
#4297 📷 8Platte Krabspin
Coriarachne depressa
👀 15 in NL
#4310 📷 10Boskrabspin
Xysticus lanio
👀 12 in NL
#4346 📷 10Stompe krabspin
Pistius truncatus
👀 2 in NL
#4362 📷 10Napoleon Spider
🇳🇱 Blinkende krabspin
Synema globosum
🌍 24.1k seen
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 360081, Wikidata Q288564, GBIF 2166830, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.
