#4195 · 🕷️ spiders & kin

False Black Widow

🇳🇱 Grote steatoda ·Steatoda grossa

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

1. © Mike Lusk · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © anonymous · CC BY-SA 4.0
3. © David Short · CC BY 4.0
4. © David Short · CC BY 4.0
5. © TeamTzibim · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Yuriy Karetin · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Assen, Nederland:© Frank Huisman · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. 3893 DW Zeewolde, Nederland:© tanjaknook · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Anna Paulownastraat, Groningen, Groningen, NL:© mrprudence · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Bilthoven:© yawnne · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Steatoda grossa , commonly known as the cupboard spider , the dark comb-footed spider , the brown house spider (in Australia), or the false black widow (though several other species are known by these names), is a common species of spider in the genus Steatoda .

base stats

NL sightings 521iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 39,650iNaturalist 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 521 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #10 most seen of the spiders & kin in NL.
39,650 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Carl Ludwig Koch in 1838 (188 years ago).