#4317 · 🕷️ spiders & kin

Heidespringspin

Evarcha michailovi

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

1. © liveinsectbox · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Анатолий Озерной /Anatoly Ozernoy · CC BY-SA 4.0
3. © Анатолий Озерной /Anatoly Ozernoy · CC BY-SA 4.0
4. © Анатолий Озерной /Anatoly Ozernoy · CC BY-SA 4.0
5. Almería, España:© Óscar Mendez · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Well, Alankomaat:© Matti Brandon · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Belsch, Deutschland:© wp-polzin · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. 30770 Campestre-et-Luc, France:© Martin Galli · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. 26600 Crozes-Hermitage, France:© Pascal Dubois · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. 06740 Châteauneuf-Grasse, France:© bscrl · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Evarcha michailovi is a species of jumping spider in the genus Evarcha that is endemic to Europe and Asia. It thrives in dry grassland and heath, but it has also been found in areas of human habitation. The species was first described in 1992 by Dmitri Logunov based on a specimen found in Russia. Examples of the species had been previously discovered in Mongolia ten years earlier, but these had been misidentified. The spider has a...

base stats

NL sightings 12iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 161iNaturalist 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).