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#4217 · 🕷️ spiders & kin

Draadhooiwagen

Leiobunum rotundum

🕷️ Spiders & kin 📍 in the Netherlands
Draadhooiwagen, photo 1 of 10
1/10 © Michał Górski · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Leiobunum rotundum is a species of harvestman. It is found in the western Old World.

base stats

  • NL sightings 106iNaturalist, research grade
  • worldwide 5,533iNaturalist 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 106 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #32 most seen of the spiders & kin in NL.
  • 5,533 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
  • Scientifically named by Pierre André Latreille in 1798 (228 years ago).

fact sheet

Nederlands
Draadhooiwagen
scientific name
Leiobunum rotundum
class
Arachnida
order
Opiliones
family
Sclerosomatidae
sightings in NL
106
sightings in Europe
3,794
sightings worldwide
5,533
GBIF records in NL
1,446
weight
—
length
—
lifespan
—
named
1798 by Pierre André Latreille

relatives· Sclerosomatidae

Sources: iNaturalist taxon 154449, Wikidata Q2392905, GBIF 4553472, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.

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