The Nature LibraryEN·ES
iNat·68912SpeciesArachnida30,267 field observations
  1. Animals
  2. ›Arthropods
  3. ›Chelicerates
  4. ›Arachnids
  5. ›Spiders
  6. ›Typical Spiders
  7. ›Haplogyne Spiders
  8. ›Synspermiatid Spiders
  9. ›Goblin Spiders and Allies
  10. ›Woodlouse Hunter Spiders
  11. ›Dysderinae
  12. ›Dysdera
  13. ›Dysdera crocata
Woodlouse Spider
Plate 1 of 5. (c) Kyle Eaton, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Kyle Eaton · via iNaturalist

Woodlouse Spider

Dysdera crocata

The woodlouse spider, Dysdera crocata, is a species of spider that preys primarily upon woodlice. Other common names refer to variations on the common name of its prey, including woodlouse hunter, sowbug hunter, sowbug killer, pillbug hunter and slater spider.

Continue reading on Wikipedia
§·

Where it lives

Recorded sightings

—

geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.

§·

In the stacks

Searching the stacks…

Every page naming Dysdera crocata in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →

This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 68912.