#4203 · 🕷️ spiders & kin
Silver-sided Sector Spider
🇳🇱 Venstersectorspin ·Zygiella x-notata
🕷️ Spiders & kin 📍 in the Netherlands
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what is it?
Zygiella x-notata ,sometimes known as the missing sector orb weavers or the silver-sided sector spider , is a spider in the family Araneidae.
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 282 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #18 most seen of the spiders & kin in NL.
- 17,494 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Carl Alexander Clerck in 1757 (269 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Silver-sided Sector Spider
- Nederlands
- Venstersectorspin
- scientific name
- Zygiella x-notata
- class
- Arachnida
- order
- Araneae
- family
- Phonognathidae
- sightings in NL
- 282
- sightings in Europe
- 5,668
- sightings worldwide
- 17,494
- GBIF records in NL
- 3,910
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1757 by Carl Alexander Clerck
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 155279, Wikidata Q205920, GBIF 2159658, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.