🕷️Diving bell spider
Die Wasserspinne (Argyroneta aquatica) oder auch Silberspinne ist die einzige Spinnenart, die nicht an Land, sondern unter Wasser lebt. Ihr Verbreitungsgebiet erstreckt sich von den Britischen Inseln im Westen bis nach Japan im Osten. Die Tiere bevorzugen saubere Seen oder langsam fließende Gewässer. Da die Wasserqualität vielerorts durch Gülle und Pestizide aus der Landwirtschaft beeinträchtigt ist, ist der Bestand stark rückläufig. Sie steht auf der Roten Liste der gefährdeten Arten in der Kategorie „Stark gefährdet“.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2026.
- Body mass
- not recorded
- Body length
- 0.01 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- not recorded
Everything we know about the Diving bell spider
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body length0.01 maverage0.01–0.01 m · range across sexesOther figures ↓Hide ↑
Species-level value synthesised as the mean of: female, male.
By sex
- Male0.01 mWorld Spider Trait DatabasePekar et al. 2021, Database 2021:baab064Body size of European spiders from Spiders of Europe; Nentwig et al. 2018
- Female0.01 mWorld Spider Trait DatabasePekar et al. 2021, Database 2021:baab064Body size of European spiders from Spiders of Europe; Nentwig et al. 2018
- Female0.01 mWorld Spider Trait DatabasePekar et al. 2021, Database 2021:baab064Spider morphometric and foraging traits; Locket & Millidge 1953
- Female0.01 mWorld Spider Trait DatabasePekar et al. 2021, Database 2021:baab064Spider morphometric and foraging traits; Locket & Millidge 1953
- Female0.01 mWorld Spider Trait DatabasePekar et al. 2021, Database 2021:baab064Spider morphometric and foraging traits; Locket & Millidge 1953
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Diving bell spider yet: body mass, shoulder height, top speed, bite force, maximum lifespan.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumArthropoda
- ›classArachnida
- ›orderAraneae
- ›familyDictynidae
- ›genusArgyroneta
- ›speciesArgyroneta aquatica
- orderSpiders · Araneae
- suborderAraneomorphae
- familyDictynidae
- genusArgyroneta
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumArthropoda
- subphylumChelicerata
- orderSpiders · Araneae
- suborderAraneomorphae
- familyDictynidae
- genusArgyroneta
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