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Argyroneta aquatica Paar🕷️

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SpeciesAraneaeDictynidae
Arthropods

🕷️Diving bell spider

Argyroneta aquatica (Clerck, 1757)

Argyroneta aquatica, l'Argyronète, est une espèce d'araignées aranéomorphes de la famille des Argyronetidae. Il s'agit de la seule espèce du genre Argyroneta non fossile. Elle vit quasi intégralement sous l'eau dans une cloche de plongée. C'est la seule araignée véritablement aquatique. Le nom « argyronète », qui provient du grec ancien ἄργυρος / arguros (« argent ») et νέω / néô (« filer »), signifie « toile argentée » est une référence à cette cloche d'air.

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Also called
Water spider
Conservation status
NTNear threatened

IUCN Red List assessment, 2026.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
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
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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 length
0.01 maverage0.01–0.01 m · range across sexes
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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.

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Wasserspinne (de), waterspin (nl), vodouch stříbřitý (cs), ミズグモ (ja), 물거미 (ko), Водяной паук (ru) … and 22 more languages
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