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title: "Attractive Running Crab Spider"
description: "Rhysodromus histrio — Insecten en spinnen. Rhysodromus histrio is a species of spider in the family Philodromidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/attractive-running-crab-spider
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Attractive Running Crab Spider

> Rhysodromus histrio — Insecten en spinnen. Rhysodromus histrio is a species of spider in the family Philodromidae.

- Scientific name: *Rhysodromus histrio*
- Category: `insects` (Insecten en spinnen)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 971
- Wikidata: [Q27503830](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27503830)
- iNaturalist taxon: [765807](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/765807)

## Names

- en: Attractive Running Crab Spider
- de: Heideflachstrecker

## Countries with the most observations

US (141), CA (77), RU (43), DK (31), DE (28), GB (21), NL (19), PL (18), AT (13), KZ (5)

## Summary

Rhysodromus histrio is a species of spider in the family Philodromidae. It is the type species of its genus. It is found in North America, Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Siberia), Central Asia and China.
This species is distributed in:

North America
Europe
Turkey
Caucasus
Russia
Europe to Far East
Central Asia
People's Republic of China

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

## Photo

![Attractive Running Crab Spider](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/attractive-running-crab-spider/medium.jpg)

Photo: dbugs · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/330421663

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/attractive-running-crab-spider?lang=nl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).