skip to content

#4305 · 🕷️ spiders & kin

Viervlekmuisspin

Kishidaia conspicua

🕷️ Spiders & kin 📍 in the Netherlands
Viervlekmuisspin, photo 1 of 10
1/10 © Stefanie Mückner · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

what is it?

De viervlekmuisspin ( Kishidaia conspicua ) is een spinnensoort in de taxonomische indeling van de bodemjachtspinnen (Gnaphosidae). De spin jaagt 's nachts en verschuilt zich overdag onder rotsen en bladeren. Het lijf van de spin is ovaalvormig, smal en puntig aan de achterzijde.

base stats

  • NL sightings 13iNaturalist, research grade
  • worldwide 143iNaturalist 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

  • Spotted 13 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
  • 143 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
  • Scientifically named by Ludwig Carl Christian Koch in 1866 (160 years ago).

fact sheet

Nederlands
Viervlekmuisspin
scientific name
Kishidaia conspicua
class
Arachnida
order
Araneae
family
Gnaphosidae
sightings in NL
13
sightings in Europe
110
sightings worldwide
143
GBIF records in NL
224
weight
—
length
—
lifespan
—
named
1866 by Ludwig Carl Christian Koch

relatives· Gnaphosidae

Sources: iNaturalist taxon 544640, Wikidata Q3915747, GBIF 2133375, Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.

stan runge 5c6ce75 source