#4206 · 🕷️ spiders & kin
Green Meshweaver
🇳🇱 Groen Kaardertje ·Nigma walckenaeri
📍 Groesbeek, Nederland
📍 Groesbeek, Nederland
📍 3701 BM Zeist, Netherlands
📍 5133 VD Riel, Netherlands
📍 Groesbeek, Nieuweweg 65, Nederland
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Jessica Sharp · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Katja Schulz · CC BY 4.0
- 3. © Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas · CC BY 4.0
- 4. © Sergiu Andreev · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Pavel Trhoň · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. Groesbeek, Nederland:© Herman Berteler · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Groesbeek, Nederland:© Herman Berteler · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. 3701 BM Zeist, Netherlands:© Michiel de Groot · CC BY 4.0
- 9. 5133 VD Riel, Netherlands:© Tim de Goede · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Groesbeek, Nieuweweg 65, Nederland:© Herman Berteler · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Nigma walckenaeri is a green cribellate spider up to five millimetres long, the largest of the family Dictynidae. While most of the body is a somewhat yellowish, the abdomen is a shining green, which makes it rather distinct and hard to confuse with other species. The green color makes it almost invisible. Males have an elevated head region. From August to October these spiders can be found in gardens or on walls - often on big...
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 204 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #21 most seen of the spiders & kin in NL.
- 5,947 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Carl Friedrich Roewer in 1951 (75 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Green Meshweaver
- Nederlands
- Groen Kaardertje
- scientific name
- Nigma walckenaeri
- class
- Arachnida
- order
- Araneae
- family
- Dictynidae
- sightings in NL
- 204
- sightings in Europe
- 4,736
- sightings worldwide
- 5,947
- GBIF records in NL
- 8,024
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1951 by Carl Friedrich Roewer
relatives· Dictynidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 84521, Wikidata Q292510, GBIF 2144994, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.