#4261 · 🕷️ spiders & kin
Lichen Running Spider
🇳🇱 Korstmosrenspin ·Philodromus margaritatus
🕷️ Spiders & kin 📍 in the Netherlands
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what is it?
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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 33 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 5,014 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Carl Alexander Clerck in 1757 (269 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Lichen Running Spider
- Nederlands
- Korstmosrenspin
- scientific name
- Philodromus margaritatus
- class
- Arachnida
- order
- Araneae
- family
- Philodromidae
- sightings in NL
- 33
- sightings in Europe
- 3,263
- sightings worldwide
- 5,014
- GBIF records in NL
- 940
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1757 by Carl Alexander Clerck
relatives· Philodromidae
#4201 📷 10Eurasian Running Crab Spider
🇳🇱 Zwartrugrenspin
Philodromus dispar
👀 317 in NL
#4278 📷 10Attractive Running Crab Spider
🇳🇱 Heiderenspin
Rhysodromus histrio
👀 19 in NL
#4328 📷 10Sand Running Spider
🇳🇱 Prachtrenspin
Rhysodromus fallax
👀 10 in NL
#4332 📷 10Common Lance-backed Crab Spider
🇳🇱 Grote Renspin
Thanatus formicinus
👀 9 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 360677, Wikidata Q82251, GBIF 5169517, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.