#4345 · 🕷️ spiders & kin
Charcoal Spider
🇳🇱 Bonte Trechterspin ·Tegenaria ferruginea
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what is it?
Tegenaria ferruginea or charcoal spider is a European reddish, rather common spider with rusty markings on its back. The body looks rather similar to T. parietina , however the legs are much shorter and the funnel web built lacks backdoor exit. It was transferred to Malthonica in 2005, but back to Tegenaria in 2013.
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 2 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 2,550 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Charcoal Spider
- Nederlands
- Bonte Trechterspin
- scientific name
- Tegenaria ferruginea
- class
- Arachnida
- order
- Araneae
- family
- Agelenidae
- sightings in NL
- 2
- sightings in Europe
- 1,209
- sightings worldwide
- 2,550
- GBIF records in NL
- 239
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
relatives· Agelenidae
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Textrix denticulata
👀 220 in NL
#4207 📷 8Labyrinth spider
🇳🇱 Gewone doolhofspin
Agelena labyrinthica
👀 185 in NL
#4209 📷 10Giant House Spider
🇳🇱 Gewone huisspin
Eratigena atrica
👀 150 in NL
#4329 📷 10Barn Funnel Weaver
🇳🇱 Grijze Huisspin
Tegenaria domestica
👀 9 in NL
#4340 📷 10Kleine Doolhofspin
Allagelena gracilens
👀 4 in NL
#4349 📷 10Giant House Spider
Eratigena duellica
👀 1 in NL
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Lycosoides coarctata
🌍 2.1k seen
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 154445, Wikidata Q27501554, GBIF 5800485, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.