#4363 · 🕷️ spiders & kin

Heather crab spider

🇳🇱 Bloemkrabspin ·Thomisus onustus

🕷️ Spiders & kin 📍 in Europe, not in NL

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

1. © bugzone · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Eduardo Millares Ley · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Christian Ferrer · CC BY-SA 4.0
4. © Matthieu Gauvain · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © emilio2020 · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © daniel_ferreira · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © CORDENOS Thierry · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © Andrea Peterlongo · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Thomisus onustus is a crab spider species in the genus Thomisus belonging to the family Thomisidae.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 20,890iNaturalist 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.
20,890 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Charles Athanase Walckenaer in 1805 (221 years ago).