#4379 · 🕷️ spiders & kin

Mediterranean false black widow

🇳🇱 Valse weduwe ·Steatoda paykulliana

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what is it?

Steatoda paykulliana is a species of false black widow spider in the tangle-web spiders family, native to the Mediterranean countries, Southern Europe and Western Asia. The species is named in honor of the Swedish naturalist Gustaf von Paykull (1757–1826).

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 3,505iNaturalist 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.
3,505 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Charles Athanase Walckenaer in 1805 (221 years ago).