#4424 · 🕷️ spiders & kin
Striped Lynx Spider
Oxyopes salticus
🕷️ Spiders & kin 📍 outside Europe
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what is it?
Oxyopes salticus is a species of lynx spider, commonly known as the Striped Lynx Spider, first described by Hentz in 1845. Its habitat tends to be grasses and leafy vegetation; grassy, weedy fields, and row crops.
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.
- 17,289 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Nicholas Marcellus Hentz in 1845 (181 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Striped Lynx Spider
- scientific name
- Oxyopes salticus
- class
- Arachnida
- order
- Araneae
- family
- Oxyopidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 17,289
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1845 by Nicholas Marcellus Hentz
relatives· Oxyopidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 83844, Wikidata Q2326779, GBIF 2178718, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.