#4228 · 🕷️ spiders & kin
Marbled Cellar Spider
🇳🇱 Marmertrilspin ·Holocnemus pluchei
🕷️ Spiders & kin 📍 in the Netherlands
9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Lucas Rubio · CC BY 4.0
- 2. © Zygy · CC0
- 3. © Mahmoud Ebrahiem · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Zygy · CC0
- 5. © christiancarter04 · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Atalay Karakuş · CC BY 4.0
- 7. © Daniel Caleca · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. © Grant Wang · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © Emanuele Santarelli · CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
Holocnemus pluchei , the marbled cellar spider, is a cellar spider species found around the Mediterranean, introduced elsewhere; Portugal (Castelo Branco).
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 76 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #43 most seen of the spiders & kin in NL.
- 18,557 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Giovanni Antonio Scopoli in 1763 (263 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Marbled Cellar Spider
- Nederlands
- Marmertrilspin
- scientific name
- Holocnemus pluchei
- class
- Arachnida
- order
- Araneae
- family
- Pholcidae
- sightings in NL
- 76
- sightings in Europe
- 8,172
- sightings worldwide
- 18,557
- GBIF records in NL
- 434
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1763 by Giovanni Antonio Scopoli
relatives· Pholcidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 211210, Wikidata Q917794, GBIF 2149679, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.