#4201 · 🕷️ spiders & kin

Eurasian Running Crab Spider

🇳🇱 Zwartrugrenspin ·Philodromus dispar

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Rand Workman · CC BY-SA 4.0
2. © Susannah Anderson · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
3. © Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas · CC BY 4.0
4. © Russell Brown · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
5. © Rand Workman · CC BY-SA 4.0
6. © Ombrosoparacloucycle · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
7. © gdahlman · CC BY 4.0
8. © Bjarne Amstrup · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. © Thomas Barbin · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. © Donald Hobern · CC BY 4.0

what is it?

Philodromus dispar is a philodromid crab spider found on trees and bushes. It is an agile hunter. The female of the species is variable in size and colour. The male is shiny and iridescent black or dark brown with white edges.

base stats

NL sightings 317iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 11,601iNaturalist observations

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 317 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #16 most seen of the spiders & kin in NL.
11,601 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Charles Athanase Walckenaer in 1826 (200 years ago).