#4406 · 🕷️ spiders & kin
American Nursery Web Spider
Pisaurina mira
🕷️ Spiders & kin 📍 outside Europe
📍 Ohio, US
📍 Ohio, US
📍 Brown's Lake Bog, Brown Rd, Shreve, OH 44676, USA
📍 Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © crgillette · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Meghan Cassidy · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. © Matt Claghorn · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Katja Schulz · CC BY 4.0
- 5. © Robby Deans · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Meghan Cassidy · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 7. Ohio, US:© Timothy Lindsey · CC BY 4.0
- 8. Ohio, US:© Timothy Lindsey · CC BY 4.0
- 9. Brown's Lake Bog, Brown Rd, Shreve, OH 44676, USA:© Su Snyder · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 10. Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States:© Claire O'Neill · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
" They are similar to wolf spiders (Lycosidae) and to the long-legged water spiders (Trechaleidae). The best way to distinguish the Pisauridae from other Families is by observing their eye patterns.
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.
- 42,746 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Charles Athanase Walckenaer in 1837 (189 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- American Nursery Web Spider
- scientific name
- Pisaurina mira
- class
- Arachnida
- order
- Araneae
- family
- Pisauridae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 42,746
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1837 by Charles Athanase Walckenaer
relatives· Pisauridae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 84109, Wikidata Q4157806, GBIF 2150992, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.