#4407 · 🕷️ spiders & kin
Green Lynx Spider
🇳🇱 Groene lynxspin ·Peucetia viridans
🕷️ Spiders & kin 📍 outside Europe
9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Cricket Raspet · CC BY 4.0
- 2. © Steven Mlodinow · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Cricket Raspet · CC BY 4.0
- 4. © Joey Santore · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Cletus Lee · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 6. © Douglas Goldman · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 7. © Roberto R. Calderón · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. © Michael D Fox · CC BY 4.0
- 9. © Carmelo López Abad · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Peucetia viridans , the green lynx spider , is a bright-green lynx spider usually found on green plants. It is the largest North American species in the family Oxyopidae.
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.
- 37,760 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Nicholas Marcellus Hentz in 1832 (194 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Green Lynx Spider
- Nederlands
- Groene lynxspin
- scientific name
- Peucetia viridans
- class
- Arachnida
- order
- Araneae
- family
- Oxyopidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 37,760
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1832 by Nicholas Marcellus Hentz
relatives· Oxyopidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 126777, Wikidata Q1968737, GBIF 2178540, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.