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title: "Walckenaer's Feather-legged Spider"
description: "Uloborus walckenaerius — Insects & spiders. Uloborus walckenaerius, also known as the feather-legged spider, is a cribellate spider in the family Uloboridae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/walckenaer-s-feather-legged-spider
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Walckenaer's Feather-legged Spider

> Uloborus walckenaerius — Insects & spiders. Uloborus walckenaerius, also known as the feather-legged spider, is a cribellate spider in the family Uloboridae.

- Scientific name: *Uloborus walckenaerius*
- Category: `insects` (Insects & spiders)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 2577
- Wikidata: [Q1313352](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1313352)
- iNaturalist taxon: [416680](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/416680)

## Names

- en: Walckenaer's Feather-legged Spider
- de: Gestreifter Federfuß
- fr: Ulobore de Walckenaer
- nl: Wielwebkaardespin

## Countries with the most observations

FR (697), ES (372), IT (322), TR (180), GR (106), PT (105), HU (46), RU (46), UA (43), RO (38), ZA (28), HR (19)

## Summary

Uloborus walckenaerius, also known as the feather-legged spider, is a cribellate spider in the family Uloboridae. Like all spiders in this family, they do not have venom glands and immobilize their prey with over 140 m of thread. They are named in honor of Charles Athanase Walckenaer.
It is commonly known as the fluffy hackled orb-web spider.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uloborus_walckenaerius

## Photo

![Walckenaer's Feather-legged Spider](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/walckenaer-s-feather-legged-spider/medium.jpg)

Photo: Liubov Ilminska · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/216928770

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/walckenaer-s-feather-legged-spider?lang=en` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).