#4362 · 🕷️ spiders & kin

Napoleon Spider

🇳🇱 Blinkende krabspin ·Synema globosum

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

1. © Gilberto Sánchez Jardón · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © MatiasG · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Martin Scheuch · CC BY 4.0
4. © Ferran Turmo Gort · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
5. © Marcello Consolo · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
6. © Marcello Consolo · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
7. Liesing, 1230 Vienna, Austria:© Per Hoffmann Olsen · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Mitte, 04 Leipzig, Deutschland:© Rolf A. Engelmann · CC BY 4.0
9. Provincia di Pisa, Italia:© alice_rofi · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. 95590 Presles, France:© Donald Davesne · CC BY 4.0

what is it?

Synema globosum is a species of spiders belonging to the family Thomisidae (crab spiders). It is sometimes called the Napoleon spider , because of a supposed resemblance of the markings on the abdomen to a silhouette of Napoleon.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 24,084iNaturalist 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.
24,084 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1775 (251 years ago).