#4382 · 🕷️ spiders & kin
Kochs blinker
Heliophanus kochii
📍 Astoria, Queens, NY, USA
📍 37521 Robleda, Salamanca, España
📍 France
📍 Marousi, Greece
📍 Lerik, Aserbaidschan
📍 Rhône, Rhône-Alpes, FR
📍 Saturargues, Occitanie, FR
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © André MIQUET · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © giorege1959 · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © coquet pascal · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. Astoria, Queens, NY, USA:© Matt Parr · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. 37521 Robleda, Salamanca, España:© Álvaro Mínguez Velasco · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. France:© Ludivine Lamare · CC BY 4.0
- 7. Marousi, Greece:© Agapakis Georgios · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Lerik, Aserbaidschan:© no rights reserved · CC0
- 9. Rhône, Rhône-Alpes, FR:© coraline973 · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Saturargues, Occitanie, FR:© eloise kerroux · CC BY 4.0
what is it?
Heliophanus kochii is a jumping spider species in the genus Heliophanus . It was described by Eugène Simon in 1868.
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
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 2,662 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- Nederlands
- Kochs blinker
- scientific name
- Heliophanus kochii
- class
- Arachnida
- order
- Araneae
- family
- Salticidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 1,402
- sightings worldwide
- 2,662
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
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👀 113 in NL
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👀 67 in NL
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👀 58 in NL
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Sources: iNaturalist taxon 468018, Wikidata Q2350518, GBIF 2172103, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.