#4246 · 🕷️ spiders & kin
Shaded Orbweaver
🇳🇱 Holenwielwebspin ·Metellina merianae
🕷️ Spiders & kin 📍 in the Netherlands
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what is it?
Metellina merianae is a spider species found in Europe up to Georgia.
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 44 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 4,662 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Shaded Orbweaver
- Nederlands
- Holenwielwebspin
- scientific name
- Metellina merianae
- class
- Arachnida
- order
- Araneae
- family
- Tetragnathidae
- sightings in NL
- 44
- sightings in Europe
- 3,008
- sightings worldwide
- 4,662
- GBIF records in NL
- 601
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
relatives· Tetragnathidae
#4260 📷 10Common Stretch Spider
🇳🇱 Gewone strekspin
Tetragnatha extensa
👀 33 in NL
#4274 📷 10Degeer's Thickjaw
🇳🇱 Kleine dikkaak
Pachygnatha degeeri
👀 22 in NL
#4330 📷 10Blunt Stretch Spider
🇳🇱 Droogtestrekspin
Tetragnatha obtusa
👀 9 in NL
#4336 📷 7Eurasian Armoured Long-jawed Spider
🇳🇱 Herfstspin
Metellina segmentata
👀 8 in NL
#4344 📷 8European cave spider
🇳🇱 Gewone grottenspin
Meta menardi
👀 2 in NL
#4403 📷 7Orchard Orbweaver
Leucauge venusta
🌍 51.3k seen
#4418 📷 10Mabel Orchard Orbweaver
Leucauge argyrobapta
🌍 19.7k seen
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 437909, Wikidata Q1313460, GBIF 2151599, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.