#4278 · 🕷️ spiders & kin
Attractive Running Crab Spider
🇳🇱 Heiderenspin ·Rhysodromus histrio
🕷️ Spiders & kin 📍 in the Netherlands
📍 Little Pond, NS B1Y, Canada
📍 Second Ave S, Okanogan, WA, US
📍 Cartago, CA 93549, USA
📍 Helen McCabe SP, Kittitas County, WA, USA
📍 vogelkoje amrum
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Steven Mlodinow · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Andreas Bennetsen Boe · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 3. © bugger44 · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Jason Headley · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Katé · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. Little Pond, NS B1Y, Canada:© David McCorquodale · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Second Ave S, Okanogan, WA, US:© Eli Loftis · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Cartago, CA 93549, USA:© hsonnenberg · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Helen McCabe SP, Kittitas County, WA, USA:© Lisa Hill · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. vogelkoje amrum:© Roel van Klink · 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 19 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 1,029 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Pierre André Latreille in 1819 (207 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Attractive Running Crab Spider
- Nederlands
- Heiderenspin
- scientific name
- Rhysodromus histrio
- class
- Arachnida
- order
- Araneae
- family
- Philodromidae
- sightings in NL
- 19
- sightings in Europe
- 192
- sightings worldwide
- 1,029
- GBIF records in NL
- 336
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1819 by Pierre André Latreille
relatives· Philodromidae
#4201 📷 10Eurasian Running Crab Spider
🇳🇱 Zwartrugrenspin
Philodromus dispar
👀 317 in NL
#4261 📷 7Lichen Running Spider
🇳🇱 Korstmosrenspin
Philodromus margaritatus
👀 33 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 765807, Wikidata Q27503830, GBIF 9488984, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.