#4200 · 🕷️ spiders & kin

Spring Harvestman

🇳🇱 Voorjaarshooiwagen ·Rilaena triangularis

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Gilles San Martin · CC BY-SA 4.0
2. © Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas · CC BY 4.0
3. © Pascal Dubois · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. 6708 PD Wageningen, Netherlands:© no rights reserved · CC0
5. Castricum, Nederland:© 05gi02el03 · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Castricum, Nederland:© 05gi02el03 · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Wassenaar, Nederland:© 05gi02el03 · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Anna Paulowna, Nederland:© 05gi02el03 · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. 1761 Anna Paulowna, Nederland:© 05gi02el03 · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. 1771 Wieringerwerf, Nederland:© 05gi02el03 · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Rilaena triangularis is a species of the harvestman family Phalangiidae. It is sometimes considered to be in the genus Paraplatybunus , in the subfamily Platybuninae.

base stats

NL sightings 328iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 11,110iNaturalist observations

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 328 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #15 most seen of the spiders & kin in NL.
11,110 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst in 1799 (227 years ago).