#4330 · 🕷️ spiders & kin
Blunt Stretch Spider
🇳🇱 Droogtestrekspin ·Tetragnatha obtusa
📍 Mierlo, NL-NB, NL
📍 Донецк
📍 Noordwijkerhout, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
📍 Уйгурский район, Казахстан
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © zsiciarz · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Jussi Heinonen · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Илья Оголь · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © nora_s · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Jörg Pageler · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Илья Оголь · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Mierlo, NL-NB, NL:© Adrian · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Донецк:© Илья Оголь · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Noordwijkerhout, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands:© Michel Langeveld · CC BY 4.0
- 10. Уйгурский район, Казахстан:© Анатолий Озерной /Anatoly Ozernoy · CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
De droogtestrekspin ( Tetragnatha obtusa ) is een spin uit de familie strekspinnen (Tetragnathidae) die in het Palearctisch gebied wordt gevonden.
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 9 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 1,400 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Carl Ludwig Koch in 1837 (189 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Blunt Stretch Spider
- Nederlands
- Droogtestrekspin
- scientific name
- Tetragnatha obtusa
- class
- Arachnida
- order
- Araneae
- family
- Tetragnathidae
- sightings in NL
- 9
- sightings in Europe
- 361
- sightings worldwide
- 1,400
- GBIF records in NL
- 106
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1837 by Carl Ludwig Koch
relatives· Tetragnathidae
#4246 📷 7Shaded Orbweaver
🇳🇱 Holenwielwebspin
Metellina merianae
👀 44 in NL
#4260 📷 10Common Stretch Spider
🇳🇱 Gewone strekspin
Tetragnatha extensa
👀 33 in NL
#4274 📷 10Degeer's Thickjaw
🇳🇱 Kleine dikkaak
Pachygnatha degeeri
👀 22 in NL
#4336 📷 7Eurasian Armoured Long-jawed Spider
🇳🇱 Herfstspin
Metellina segmentata
👀 8 in NL
#4344 📷 8European cave spider
🇳🇱 Gewone grottenspin
Meta menardi
👀 2 in NL
#4403 📷 7Orchard Orbweaver
Leucauge venusta
🌍 51.3k seen
#4418 📷 10Mabel Orchard Orbweaver
Leucauge argyrobapta
🌍 19.7k seen
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 498346, Wikidata Q140590, GBIF 2151964, Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.