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#4389 · 🕷️ spiders & kin

Schorssteatoda

Steatoda castanea

🕷️ Spiders & kin 📍 in Europe, not in NL
Schorssteatoda, photo 1 of 10
1/10 © Miroslav Deml · CC BY 4.0

what is it?

De schorssteatoda ( Steatoda castanea ) is een spinnensoort uit de familie van de kogelspinnen (Theridiidae). De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort werd, als Araneus castaneus , in 1758 gepubliceerd door Carl Alexander Clerck.

base stats

  • NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
  • worldwide 2,149iNaturalist 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

  • No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
  • 2,149 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.

fact sheet

Nederlands
Schorssteatoda
scientific name
Steatoda castanea
class
Arachnida
order
Araneae
family
Theridiidae
sightings in NL
0
sightings in Europe
1,530
sightings worldwide
2,149
GBIF records in NL
0
weight
—
length
—
lifespan
—

relatives· Theridiidae

Sources: iNaturalist taxon 231492, Wikidata Q1059318, GBIF 2157219, Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.

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