#4351 · 🕷️ spiders & kin
Walckenaer's Feather-legged Spider
🇳🇱 Wielwebkaardespin ·Uloborus walckenaerius
🕷️ Spiders & kin 📍 in the Netherlands
📍 Osmangazi, 35535 Bayraklı/İzmir, Türkiye
📍 Pontevedra, España
📍 H28Q+GG, 37-450 Stalowa Wola, Poland
📍 Bayern, DE
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Raphaël Grellety · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Kamil Hurna · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Анатолий Озерной /Anatoliy Ozernoy · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 4. © Raphaël Grellety · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Ferran Turmo Gort · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 6. © Céline · CC BY 4.0
- 7. Osmangazi, 35535 Bayraklı/İzmir, Türkiye:© Atalay Karakuş · CC BY 4.0
- 8. Pontevedra, España:© Suso Tizón · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 9. H28Q+GG, 37-450 Stalowa Wola, Poland:© Anton · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Bayern, DE:© Adi Peter · CC BY 4.0
what is it?
Uloborus walckenaerius is a spider in the family Uloboridae. Like all spiders in this family, they do not have venom glands and kill their prey by crushing with over 140 metres of thread.
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 1 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 2,631 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Pierre André Latreille in 1806 (220 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Walckenaer's Feather-legged Spider
- Nederlands
- Wielwebkaardespin
- scientific name
- Uloborus walckenaerius
- class
- Arachnida
- order
- Araneae
- family
- Uloboridae
- sightings in NL
- 1
- sightings in Europe
- 1,924
- sightings worldwide
- 2,631
- GBIF records in NL
- 1
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1806 by Pierre André Latreille
relatives· Uloboridae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 416680, Wikidata Q1313352, GBIF 2142516, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.