#4291 · 🕷️ spiders & kin

Saddleback Harvestman

Mitopus morio

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Pascal Dubois · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Pascal Dubois · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Jörg Pageler · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Morten DD Hansen · CC0
5. © Kim Falck · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Малые Колпаны, Ленинградская обл., Россия, 188349:© Марина Горбунова-Ëлкина · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. East Tyrol, Austria:© Tobias Gratzer · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Snæfellsjökull National Park, Snæfellsbær, Western Region, IS:© birdzilla · CC BY 4.0
9. 05350 Arvieux, France:© Julien Renoult · CC BY 4.0
10. 77728 Oppenau, Deutschland:© Corinna Herr · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Mitopus morio is a species of harvestman. It occurs in North America, Europe and Asia. It has been observed to walk using its first, third, and fourth sets of legs, using the unusually long second pair of legs to feel in front of it and probe its environment.

base stats

NL sightings 15iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 8,582iNaturalist 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).