🕷️Diving bell spider

Argyroneta aquatica (Clerck, 1757)

물거미는 거미목 잎거미과의 거미이다. 물속에 공기주머니를 만들어서 생활하며, 알도 그 속에서 보호한다. 먹이는 하루살이 애벌레 등의 물 속에 사는 곤충이다. 연천 은대리의 물거미 서식지가 천연기념물 제 412호로 지정되어 있고, 2017년 환경부 지정 멸종위기 Ⅱ급 생물목록에 추가되었다.

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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