#4274 · 🕷️ spiders & kin
Degeer's Thickjaw
🇳🇱 Kleine dikkaak ·Pachygnatha degeeri
🕷️ Spiders & kin 📍 in the Netherlands
📍 6826 CC Arnhem, Netherlands
📍 Hortus Alkmaar
📍 De Rivieren, Den Haag, Nederland
📍 3738 CX Maartensdijk, Nederland
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Taxon Expeditions · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. © Taxon Expeditions · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. © michi1 · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Marcello Consolo · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 5. © katunchik · CC BY 4.0
- 6. © Daniele Saracino · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. 6826 CC Arnhem, Netherlands:© 05gi02el03 · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Hortus Alkmaar:© 05gi02el03 · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. De Rivieren, Den Haag, Nederland:© Rob Westerduijn · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. 3738 CX Maartensdijk, Nederland:© Frans-Jan Snoek · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Pachygnatha degeeri is a spider in the genus of long-jawed orb weavers (Tetragnathidae).
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 22 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 2,066 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Degeer's Thickjaw
- Nederlands
- Kleine dikkaak
- scientific name
- Pachygnatha degeeri
- class
- Arachnida
- order
- Araneae
- family
- Tetragnathidae
- sightings in NL
- 22
- sightings in Europe
- 1,033
- sightings worldwide
- 2,066
- GBIF records in NL
- 5,461
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
relatives· Tetragnathidae
#4246 📷 7Shaded Orbweaver
🇳🇱 Holenwielwebspin
Metellina merianae
👀 44 in NL
#4260 📷 10Common Stretch Spider
🇳🇱 Gewone strekspin
Tetragnatha extensa
👀 33 in NL
#4330 📷 10Blunt Stretch Spider
🇳🇱 Droogtestrekspin
Tetragnatha obtusa
👀 9 in NL
#4336 📷 7Eurasian Armoured Long-jawed Spider
🇳🇱 Herfstspin
Metellina segmentata
👀 8 in NL
#4344 📷 8European cave spider
🇳🇱 Gewone grottenspin
Meta menardi
👀 2 in NL
#4403 📷 7Orchard Orbweaver
Leucauge venusta
🌍 51.3k seen
#4418 📷 10Mabel Orchard Orbweaver
Leucauge argyrobapta
🌍 19.7k seen
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 335452, Wikidata Q1313238, GBIF 5170070, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.