#4188 · 🕷️ spiders & kin
European Nursery Web spider
🇳🇱 Kraamwebspin ·Pisaura mirabilis
🕷️ Spiders & kin 📍 in the Netherlands
9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Mathias Krumbholz · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. © Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas · CC BY 4.0
- 3. © AnneTanne · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Borja Fierro-Leva · CC BY 4.0
- 5. © Анатолий Озерной /Anatoliy Ozernoy · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 6. © Lukas Jonaitis · CC BY 4.0
- 7. © Ferran Turmo Gort · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 8. © Alaric P · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © Emanuele Santarelli · CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The nursery web spider Pisaura mirabilis is a spider species of the family Pisauridae.
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 1,695 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #3 most seen of the spiders & kin in NL.
- 65,916 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Carl Alexander Clerck in 1757 (269 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- European Nursery Web spider
- Nederlands
- Kraamwebspin
- scientific name
- Pisaura mirabilis
- class
- Arachnida
- order
- Araneae
- family
- Pisauridae
- sightings in NL
- 1,695
- sightings in Europe
- 61,901
- sightings worldwide
- 65,916
- GBIF records in NL
- 63,343
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1757 by Carl Alexander Clerck
relatives· Pisauridae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 55787, Wikidata Q1548200, GBIF 2150764, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.