#4227 · 🕷️ spiders & kin
Yellow-legged Zipper Spider
🇳🇱 Stekelkaakkampoot ·Trachyzelotes pedestris
🕷️ Spiders & kin 📍 in the Netherlands
📍 3925 Scherpenzeel, Nederland
📍 Wassenaar, Nederland
📍 6708 DE Wageningen, Netherlands
📍 Evertsoord, Nederland
📍 6708 LP Wageningen, Netherlands
📍 Appeltern, Informatietuinen, 6631 KW Horssen, Nederland
📍 3138 HD Vlaardingen, Nederland
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Víctor Javier Marugán. · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas · CC BY 4.0
- 3. © Gábor Keresztes · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. 3925 Scherpenzeel, Nederland:© Rob C. H. M. Oudejans · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. Wassenaar, Nederland:© Rob Westerduijn · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. 6708 DE Wageningen, Netherlands:© Pádraic Flood · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 7. Evertsoord, Nederland:© ロビン · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. 6708 LP Wageningen, Netherlands:© Pádraic Flood · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 9. Appeltern, Informatietuinen, 6631 KW Horssen, Nederland:© Marleen Schouten · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. 3138 HD Vlaardingen, Nederland:© karliatje · CC BY 4.0
what is it?
Koch in 1837.
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 77 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #42 most seen of the spiders & kin in NL.
- 2,327 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Carl Ludwig Koch in 1837 (189 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Yellow-legged Zipper Spider
- Nederlands
- Stekelkaakkampoot
- scientific name
- Trachyzelotes pedestris
- class
- Arachnida
- order
- Araneae
- family
- Gnaphosidae
- sightings in NL
- 77
- sightings in Europe
- 1,377
- sightings worldwide
- 2,327
- GBIF records in NL
- 1,233
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1837 by Carl Ludwig Koch
relatives· Gnaphosidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 507471, Wikidata Q2381777, GBIF 2133779, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.