#4237 · 🕷️ spiders & kin
Feather-legged Lace Weaver
🇳🇱 Kaskaardespin ·Uloborus plumipes
🕷️ Spiders & kin 📍 in the Netherlands
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what is it?
Uloborus plumipes is a species of Old World cribellate spider in the family Uloboridae. Common names include the feather-legged lace weaver and the garden centre spider , the latter name being due to its frequent occurrence of this spider in garden centres on the world. The species name is derived from the Latin pluma "feather" and pes "foot".
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 65 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #50 most seen of the spiders & kin in NL.
- 3,218 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Feather-legged Lace Weaver
- Nederlands
- Kaskaardespin
- scientific name
- Uloborus plumipes
- class
- Arachnida
- order
- Araneae
- family
- Uloboridae
- sightings in NL
- 65
- sightings in Europe
- 1,536
- sightings worldwide
- 3,218
- GBIF records in NL
- 479
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
relatives· Uloboridae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 372517, Wikidata Q6273540, GBIF 2142456, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.