#4225 · 🕷️ spiders & kin
Common candy-striped spider
🇳🇱 Gewone tandkaak ·Enoplognatha ovata
📍 3633 Vreeland, Països Baixos
📍 Westerpark, Amsterdam, Netherlands
📍 3701 BM Zeist, Netherlands
📍 Groningen, NL
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Alexander Skevington · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Jason M Crockwell · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 3. © molanic · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Jason M Crockwell · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 5. © Evgenii Iaitskii · CC BY 4.0
- 6. © aarongunnar · CC BY 4.0
- 7. 3633 Vreeland, Països Baixos:© ferran garcia mari · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Westerpark, Amsterdam, Netherlands:© nickfartree · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. 3701 BM Zeist, Netherlands:© Michiel de Groot · CC BY 4.0
- 10. Groningen, NL:© jtdai · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Enoplognatha ovata is a species of spiders belonging to the family Theridiidae.
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 81 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #40 most seen of the spiders & kin in NL.
- 15,930 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Common candy-striped spider
- Nederlands
- Gewone tandkaak
- scientific name
- Enoplognatha ovata
- class
- Arachnida
- order
- Araneae
- family
- Theridiidae
- sightings in NL
- 81
- sightings in Europe
- 2,481
- sightings worldwide
- 15,930
- GBIF records in NL
- 3,634
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
relatives· Theridiidae
#4195 📷 10False Black Widow
🇳🇱 Grote steatoda
Steatoda grossa
👀 521 in NL
#4218 📷 7Common House Spider
🇳🇱 Broeikasspin
Parasteatoda tepidariorum
👀 98 in NL
#4230 📷 7Banded Comb-Footed Spider
🇳🇱 Slanke kogelspin
Anelosimus vittatus
👀 75 in NL
#4244 📷 7Rabbit Hutch Spider
🇳🇱 Koffieboonspin
Steatoda bipunctata
👀 45 in NL
#4250 📷 10Triangulate Combfoot
🇳🇱 Huissteatoda
Steatoda triangulosa
👀 40 in NL
#4253 📷 10Noble False Widow
🇳🇱 Reuzensteatoda
Steatoda nobilis
👀 38 in NL
#4271 📷 7Ant Comb-Footed Spider
🇳🇱 Heidesteatoda
Asagena phalerata
👀 23 in NL
#4284 📷 7False Pirate Spider
🇳🇱 Zwartringkogelspin
Platnickina tincta
👀 17 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 219195, Wikidata Q1313519, GBIF 2158077, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.