#4373 · 🕷️ spiders & kin
Green Huntsman Spider
Micrommata ligurina
🕷️ Spiders & kin 📍 in Europe, not in NL
7 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
what is it?
Micrommata ligurina is a species of huntsman spider. It was first described by Carl Ludwig Koch in 1845.
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
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 5,363 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Carl Ludwig Koch in 1845 (181 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Green Huntsman Spider
- scientific name
- Micrommata ligurina
- class
- Arachnida
- order
- Araneae
- family
- Sparassidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 4,249
- sightings worldwide
- 5,363
- GBIF records in NL
- 5
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1845 by Carl Ludwig Koch
relatives· Sparassidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 319544, Wikidata Q2340571, GBIF 2161871, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.