#4372 · 🕷️ spiders & kin

Mediterranean white-banded spider

🇳🇱 Mediterrane grasspringspin ·Evarcha jucunda

🕷️ Spiders & kin 📍 in Europe, not in NL

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

1. © David Renoult · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. Barcelona, España:© Óscar Mendez · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. V.misa (C.del Latte), 60126 Torrette AN, Italia:© Gianni Del Bufalo bygdb · CC BY 4.0
4. Yazlık:© Başar Çelik · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. 00040 Rocca di Papa RM, Italia:© Luca Odorico · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. 26400 Grane, France:© Maxime C · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Université de Montpellier - Faculté des Sciences - Campus Triolet, Montpellier, Languedoc, FR:© Stéphan Gasca · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Sardinien, Muravera, Sardinien, IT:© moehrchen · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. 04500 Roumoules, France:© smuidy · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Cadereau, Nîmes, France:© Daniel BIZET (COGard) · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

what is it?

Evarcha jucunda is a species of jumping spider.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 6,626iNaturalist 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.
6,626 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Hippolyte Lucas in 1846 (180 years ago).