#4199 · 🕷️ spiders & kin
Mediterranean Spiny False Wolf Spider
🇳🇱 Valse wolfspin ·Zoropsis spinimana
🕷️ Spiders & kin 📍 in the Netherlands
📍 3515 BE Utrecht, Nederland
📍 Molenstraat, Veenendaal, Utrecht, NL
📍 Kruisstraat, Delft, South Holland, NL
📍 Heeswijk-Dinther
📍 Arnhem, Nederland
📍 Heerlen
📍 5625 LD Eindhoven, Netherlands
📍 Haarlem
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Martin Galli · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Manuel Raab · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. 3515 BE Utrecht, Nederland:© wolfshaar · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. Molenstraat, Veenendaal, Utrecht, NL:© berrybartels · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. Kruisstraat, Delft, South Holland, NL:© Joris van Roekel · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. Heeswijk-Dinther:© tavp · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Arnhem, Nederland:© onelovenature · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Heerlen:© henkslaghuis · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. 5625 LD Eindhoven, Netherlands:© homeopatch · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Haarlem:© ties1980 · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Zoropsis spinimana is a spider species, belonging to the family Zoropsidae.
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 343 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #14 most seen of the spiders & kin in NL.
- 30,882 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Léon Dufour in 1820 (206 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Mediterranean Spiny False Wolf Spider
- Nederlands
- Valse wolfspin
- scientific name
- Zoropsis spinimana
- class
- Arachnida
- order
- Araneae
- family
- Zoropsidae
- sightings in NL
- 343
- sightings in Europe
- 25,147
- sightings worldwide
- 30,882
- GBIF records in NL
- 16,435
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1820 by Léon Dufour
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 127112, Wikidata Q147818, GBIF 2153287, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.