#4202 · 🕷️ spiders & kin
Common Spitting Spider
🇳🇱 Getijgerde lijmspuiter ·Scytodes thoracica
🕷️ Spiders & kin 📍 in the Netherlands
📍 3925 Scherpenzeel, Nederland
📍 Netherlands
📍 6708 DE Wageningen, Netherlands
📍 Scherpenzeel, Nederland
📍 Vlinderlaan, Mierlo, North Brabant, NL
📍 Herewegwijk en Helpman, Groningen, Netherlands
📍 Die, Bergen-Binnen, North Holland, NL
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © bscrl · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © carnifex · CC BY 4.0
- 3. © javixu · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. 3925 Scherpenzeel, Nederland:© Rob C. H. M. Oudejans · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. Netherlands:© Philip Waldman · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. 6708 DE Wageningen, Netherlands:© Pádraic Flood · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 7. Scherpenzeel, Nederland:© Rob C. H. M. Oudejans · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Vlinderlaan, Mierlo, North Brabant, NL:© niborretelk · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Herewegwijk en Helpman, Groningen, Netherlands:© Rainer Breitling · CC BY 4.0
- 10. Die, Bergen-Binnen, North Holland, NL:© Yvonne A. de Jong · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Scytodes thoracica is a spitting spider, so called because it spits a venomous sticky silken substance over its prey. 24 in). The carapace is unusual in sloping upwards towards its rear end, whereas the abdomen slopes downwards.
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 283 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #17 most seen of the spiders & kin in NL.
- 10,145 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Pierre André Latreille in 1802 (224 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Common Spitting Spider
- Nederlands
- Getijgerde lijmspuiter
- scientific name
- Scytodes thoracica
- class
- Arachnida
- order
- Araneae
- family
- Scytodidae
- sightings in NL
- 283
- sightings in Europe
- 7,297
- sightings worldwide
- 10,145
- GBIF records in NL
- 10,657
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1802 by Pierre André Latreille
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 57450, Wikidata Q1313397, GBIF 5168969, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.