#4360 · 🕷️ spiders & kin
Pantropical Huntsman Spider
🇳🇱 Bananenspin ·Heteropoda venatoria
🕷️ Spiders & kin 📍 in Europe, not in NL
📍 957, Taiwan, Taitung County, Haiduan Township, 台東縣海端鄉海端村
📍 Yelapa, Jalisco, Mexico
📍 Guam
📍 Berlin-Bezirk Lichtenberg, Deutschland
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Cheng-Tao Lin · CC BY 4.0
- 2. © Roman Prokhorov · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © budak · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © budak · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Samuele Papeschi · CC BY 4.0
- 6. © Reynante Martinez · CC BY 4.0
- 7. 957, Taiwan, Taitung County, Haiduan Township, 台東縣海端鄉海端村:© jamesmifan · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Yelapa, Jalisco, Mexico:© Cheryl Harleston López Espino · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 9. Guam:© aubrey_moore · CC BY 4.0
- 10. Berlin-Bezirk Lichtenberg, Deutschland:© Elias Freyhof · CC BY 4.0
what is it?
Heteropoda venatoria is a species of spider in the family Sparassidae, the huntsman spiders. It is native to the tropical regions of the world, and it is present in some subtropical areas as an introduced species. Its common names include giant crab spider and cane spider .
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.
- 30,749 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1767 (259 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Pantropical Huntsman Spider
- Nederlands
- Bananenspin
- scientific name
- Heteropoda venatoria
- class
- Arachnida
- order
- Araneae
- family
- Sparassidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 2
- sightings worldwide
- 30,749
- GBIF records in NL
- 6
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1767
relatives· Sparassidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 48765, Wikidata Q1147592, GBIF 2161710, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.