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title: "Gewone komkommerspin"
description: "Araniella cucurbitina — Insecten en spinnen. Araniella cucurbitina, sometimes called the \"cucumber green spider\", is a spider of the family Araneidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/cucumber-green-spider
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Gewone komkommerspin

> Araniella cucurbitina — Insecten en spinnen. Araniella cucurbitina, sometimes called the "cucumber green spider", is a spider of the family Araneidae.

- Scientific name: *Araniella cucurbitina*
- Category: `insects` (Insecten en spinnen)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 6217
- Wikidata: [Q1545036](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1545036)
- iNaturalist taxon: [129017](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/129017)

## Names

- en: Cucumber Green Spider
- de: Gewöhnliche Kürbisspinne
- es: Araña Verde Común
- fr: Épeire Concombre
- nl: Gewone komkommerspin
- pl: Krzyżak zielony

## Countries with the most observations

GB (212), DE (61), FR (54), AT (43), IT (42), FI (40), RU (40), DK (36), ES (36), LT (30), CZ (28), PT (24)

## Summary

Araniella cucurbitina, sometimes called the "cucumber green spider", is a spider of the family Araneidae. Araniella cucurbitina is found across Europe, Western Asia, Central Asia and Japan. The cucurbitina in the name comes from the word cucurbit which is a family of plants including cucumbers.

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

## Photo

![Gewone komkommerspin](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/cucumber-green-spider/medium.jpg)

Photo: Iain Robson · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/26491041

## Machine access

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