#4339 · 🕷️ spiders & kin
Variegated Lynx Spider
🇳🇱 Gutspalplynxspin ·Oxyopes heterophthalmus
🕷️ Spiders & kin 📍 in the Netherlands
📍 7200 Campinho, Portugal
📍 06500 Castellar, France
📍 4292 Dobri dol, Bulgaria
📍 England, GB
📍 Otterlo, Nederland
📍 England, GB
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Cristobal Jimenez · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 2. © Felix Riegel · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Simon Oliver · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Claudia Fernández Bagan · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. 7200 Campinho, Portugal:© Axel Gosseries · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. 06500 Castellar, France:© Julien Tchilinguirian · CC BY 4.0
- 7. 4292 Dobri dol, Bulgaria:© SteveM4560 · CC BY 4.0
- 8. England, GB:© Luke D Chambers · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Otterlo, Nederland:© ロビン · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. England, GB:© Luke D Chambers · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Oxyopes heterophthalmus is a lynx spider from the family Oxyopidae, it is the type species of the genus Oxyopes and was described by Pierre André Latreille in 1804, it has a Palearctic distribution.
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 6 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 2,971 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Pierre André Latreille in 1804 (222 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Variegated Lynx Spider
- Nederlands
- Gutspalplynxspin
- scientific name
- Oxyopes heterophthalmus
- class
- Arachnida
- order
- Araneae
- family
- Oxyopidae
- sightings in NL
- 6
- sightings in Europe
- 1,394
- sightings worldwide
- 2,971
- GBIF records in NL
- 92
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1804 by Pierre André Latreille
relatives· Oxyopidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 326355, Wikidata Q2247545, GBIF 2178930, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.