#4284 · 🕷️ spiders & kin
False Pirate Spider
🇳🇱 Zwartringkogelspin ·Platnickina tincta
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what is it?
Platnickina tincta is a tangle web spider species with Holarctic distribution. It is notably found in Lithuania.
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 17 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 2,118 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Charles Athanase Walckenaer in 1802 (224 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- False Pirate Spider
- Nederlands
- Zwartringkogelspin
- scientific name
- Platnickina tincta
- class
- Arachnida
- order
- Araneae
- family
- Theridiidae
- sightings in NL
- 17
- sightings in Europe
- 954
- sightings worldwide
- 2,118
- GBIF records in NL
- 330
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1802 by Charles Athanase Walckenaer
relatives· Theridiidae
#4195 📷 10False Black Widow
🇳🇱 Grote steatoda
Steatoda grossa
👀 521 in NL
#4218 📷 7Common House Spider
🇳🇱 Broeikasspin
Parasteatoda tepidariorum
👀 98 in NL
#4225 📷 10Common candy-striped spider
🇳🇱 Gewone tandkaak
Enoplognatha ovata
👀 81 in NL
#4230 📷 7Banded Comb-Footed Spider
🇳🇱 Slanke kogelspin
Anelosimus vittatus
👀 75 in NL
#4244 📷 7Rabbit Hutch Spider
🇳🇱 Koffieboonspin
Steatoda bipunctata
👀 45 in NL
#4250 📷 10Triangulate Combfoot
🇳🇱 Huissteatoda
Steatoda triangulosa
👀 40 in NL
#4253 📷 10Noble False Widow
🇳🇱 Reuzensteatoda
Steatoda nobilis
👀 38 in NL
#4271 📷 7Ant Comb-Footed Spider
🇳🇱 Heidesteatoda
Asagena phalerata
👀 23 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 417238, Wikidata Q1759839, GBIF 4550685, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.