#4191 · 🕷️ spiders & kin
Long-bodied Cellar Spider
🇳🇱 Grote trilspin ·Pholcus phalangioides
🕷️ Spiders & kin 📍 in the Netherlands (introduced)
📍 Assen, NL-DR, NL
📍 9204 EB Drachten, Nederland
📍 7963 PX Ruinen, Nederland
📍 9204 EB Drachten, Nederland
📍 1701 LA Heerhugowaard, Nederland
📍 Hengelo
📍 9351 JX Leek, Netherlands
📍 7845 TP Holsloot, Nederland
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Helena Yarova · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Pete McGregor · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 3. Assen, NL-DR, NL:© Frank Huisman · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. 9204 EB Drachten, Nederland:© teddydolstra · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. 7963 PX Ruinen, Nederland:© teddydolstra · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. 9204 EB Drachten, Nederland:© teddydolstra · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. 1701 LA Heerhugowaard, Nederland:© dwarel · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Hengelo:© jasmyn06 · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. 9351 JX Leek, Netherlands:© Joren van Schie · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. 7845 TP Holsloot, Nederland:© Katja · CC BY-NC 4.0
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 800 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #6 most seen of the spiders & kin in NL.
- 59,918 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Johann Kaspar Füssli in 1775 (251 years ago).
- Not originally Dutch: it was introduced to the Netherlands.
fact sheet
- English
- Long-bodied Cellar Spider
- Nederlands
- Grote trilspin
- scientific name
- Pholcus phalangioides
- class
- Arachnida
- order
- Araneae
- family
- Pholcidae
- in NL
- introduced
- sightings in NL
- 800
- sightings in Europe
- 22,153
- sightings worldwide
- 59,918
- GBIF records in NL
- 4,145
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1775 by Johann Kaspar Füssli
relatives· Pholcidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 67328, Wikidata Q1164137, GBIF 2149937, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.