#4224 · 🕷️ spiders & kin
Denneboom-hooiwagen
Leiobunum blackwalli
🕷️ Spiders & kin 📍 in the Netherlands
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what is it?
Leiobunum blackwalli is a species of harvestman. It is found in Europe.
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 82 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #38 most seen of the spiders & kin in NL.
- 2,861 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Richard Henry Meade in 1861 (165 years ago).
fact sheet
- Nederlands
- Denneboom-hooiwagen
- scientific name
- Leiobunum blackwalli
- class
- Arachnida
- order
- Opiliones
- family
- Sclerosomatidae
- sightings in NL
- 82
- sightings in Europe
- 2,300
- sightings worldwide
- 2,861
- GBIF records in NL
- 735
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1861 by Richard Henry Meade
relatives· Sclerosomatidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 61348, Wikidata Q2495391, GBIF 4553482, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.