#4319 · 🕷️ spiders & kin
Green Huntsman Spider
🇳🇱 Groene Jachtspin ·Micrommata virescens
🕷️ Spiders & kin 📍 in the Netherlands
8 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
what is it?
Micrommata virescens , common name green huntsman spider , is a species of huntsman spiders belonging to the family Sparassidae.
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 11 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 9,426 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Green Huntsman Spider
- Nederlands
- Groene Jachtspin
- scientific name
- Micrommata virescens
- class
- Arachnida
- order
- Araneae
- family
- Sparassidae
- sightings in NL
- 11
- sightings in Europe
- 7,570
- sightings worldwide
- 9,426
- GBIF records in NL
- 275
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
relatives· Sparassidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 121766, Wikidata Q403009, GBIF 2161872, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.