#4332 · 🕷️ spiders & kin
Common Lance-backed Crab Spider
🇳🇱 Grote Renspin ·Thanatus formicinus
🕷️ Spiders & kin 📍 in the Netherlands
📍 Palanga, Lietuva
📍 20th Side Rd. & Malibu, Thunder Bay, ON P7K 1C3, Canada
📍 Hoenderloo, Nederland
📍 Талгар, Казахстан
📍 Nottinghamshire, England, GB
📍 Талгар, Казахстан
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Ralph Martin · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 2. © Joe Girgente · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Henrique Pacheco · CC BY 4.0
- 4. © Julien Bottinelli · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. Palanga, Lietuva:© myxograzina · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. 20th Side Rd. & Malibu, Thunder Bay, ON P7K 1C3, Canada:© jumping_arachnids · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Hoenderloo, Nederland:© 05gi02el03 · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Талгар, Казахстан:© Анатолий Озерной /Anatoly Ozernoy · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 9. Nottinghamshire, England, GB:© Luke D Chambers · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Талгар, Казахстан:© Анатолий Озерной /Anatoly Ozernoy · CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
Thanatus formicinus is a species of spider in the family Philodromidae. It has a Holarctic distribution.
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.
- 1,095 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Carl Alexander Clerck in 1757 (269 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Common Lance-backed Crab Spider
- Nederlands
- Grote Renspin
- scientific name
- Thanatus formicinus
- class
- Arachnida
- order
- Araneae
- family
- Philodromidae
- sightings in NL
- 9
- sightings in Europe
- 95
- sightings worldwide
- 1,095
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1757 by Carl Alexander Clerck
relatives· Philodromidae
#4201 📷 10Eurasian Running Crab Spider
🇳🇱 Zwartrugrenspin
Philodromus dispar
👀 317 in NL
#4261 📷 7Lichen Running Spider
🇳🇱 Korstmosrenspin
Philodromus margaritatus
👀 33 in NL
#4278 📷 10Attractive Running Crab Spider
🇳🇱 Heiderenspin
Rhysodromus histrio
👀 19 in NL
#4328 📷 10Sand Running Spider
🇳🇱 Prachtrenspin
Rhysodromus fallax
👀 10 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 153858, Wikidata Q1313493, GBIF 2148047, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.