#4248 · 🕷️ spiders & kin
Lentevuurspin
Eresus sandaliatus
🕷️ Spiders & kin 📍 in the Netherlands
📍 6731 Otterlo, Nederland
📍 Hoog Buurlo, Apeldoorn, Nederland
📍 6731 Otterlo, Netherlands
📍 Hoog Buurlo, Apeldoorn, Nederland
📍 6731 Otterlo, Nederland
📍 Otterlo, Nederland
📍 6731 Otterlo, Nederland
📍 6731 Otterlo, Nederland
📍 6891 ZZ Rozendaal, Niederlande
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Jørgen Lissner · CC BY 4.0
- 2. 6731 Otterlo, Nederland:© pwink · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. Hoog Buurlo, Apeldoorn, Nederland:© ロビン · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. 6731 Otterlo, Netherlands:© Tammo Reichgelt · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. Hoog Buurlo, Apeldoorn, Nederland:© ロビン · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. 6731 Otterlo, Nederland:© pwink · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Otterlo, Nederland:© 05gi02el03 · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. 6731 Otterlo, Nederland:© floris_heemskerk · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. 6731 Otterlo, Nederland:© 05gi02el03 · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. 6891 ZZ Rozendaal, Niederlande:© Daniela Kupschus · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Eresus sandaliatus is a species of spider found primarily in northern and central Europe. Like other species of the genus Eresus , it is commonly called ladybird spider because of the coloration of the male.
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 44 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 384 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Johann August Ephraim Goeze in 1778 (248 years ago).
fact sheet
- Nederlands
- Lentevuurspin
- scientific name
- Eresus sandaliatus
- class
- Arachnida
- order
- Araneae
- family
- Eresidae
- sightings in NL
- 44
- sightings in Europe
- 309
- sightings worldwide
- 384
- GBIF records in NL
- 1,335
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1778 by Johann August Ephraim Goeze
relatives· Eresidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 122708, Wikidata Q2519430, GBIF 2164353, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.