Why is this site useful?
Who built this site?
top of pageHi, I'm Frits and I live - you guessed it - in the Netherlands. I've always been interested in photographing small creatures. Spiders have my special interest because I think they are fascinating, both in behaviour and appearance.
For me, the more animals differ from humans, the more fascinating they are (although humans can be quite interesting as well, see here).
Determining the species of a spider found inside or outside the house is a challenging and exciting game for me. I built this site as a means to determine the family, genus, and - if possible - species of a spider as quickly as possible. Read the following section to discover how I hope to achieve this goal.
Where do the pictures come from?
Version information
The database currently contains 41 families, 267 genera and 638 species, of which 6 are introduced species.
Species file version: 87, 30 Dec 2024
Genera file version: 64, 30 Dec 2024
Families file version: 22, 30 Dec 2024
Finds file version: 16, 22 jul 2017
Zools file version: 30, 08 AUG 2017