#4232 · 🕷️ spiders & kin
Tube-dwelling Spider
🇳🇱 Kerkzesoog ·Segestria florentina
🕷️ Spiders & kin 📍 in the Netherlands
8 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
what is it?
Segestria florentina is the biggest European segestriid spider. Some common names are tube web spider or cellar spider , although neither are exclusive to this species.
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 69 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #47 most seen of the spiders & kin in NL.
- 5,793 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Pietro Rossi in 1790 (236 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Tube-dwelling Spider
- Nederlands
- Kerkzesoog
- scientific name
- Segestria florentina
- class
- Arachnida
- order
- Araneae
- family
- Segestriidae
- sightings in NL
- 69
- sightings in Europe
- 3,396
- sightings worldwide
- 5,793
- GBIF records in NL
- 1,157
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1790 by Pietro Rossi
relatives· Segestriidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 320827, Wikidata Q141264, GBIF 5169968, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.