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title: "Bleeding Heart Spider"
description: "Nigma puella — Owady i pająki. Nigma puella is a species of spider belonging to the family Dictynidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pl/animal/bleeding-heart-spider
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Bleeding Heart Spider

> Nigma puella — Owady i pająki. Nigma puella is a species of spider belonging to the family Dictynidae.

- Scientific name: *Nigma puella*
- Category: `insects` (Owady i pająki)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 2011
- Wikidata: [Q3321010](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3321010)
- iNaturalist taxon: [468257](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/468257)

## Names

- en: Bleeding Heart Spider
- de: Rote Kräuselspinne
- fr: Dictyne fille

## Countries with the most observations

FR (517), GB (374), ES (189), PT (132), IT (130), GR (8), IE (5), DE (4), HR (3), TR (3)

## Summary

Nigma puella is a species of spider belonging to the family Dictynidae. It is found in Europe, Azores, Madeira, Canary Islands and parts of North Africa.
Like most members of the family, this is a small spider but the female is striking, with a light green abdomen marked with a bold maroon blotch and a variable amount of barring in the same colour. The male is reddish brown. This species makes a horizontal web over the top surface of a leaf.

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

## Photo

![Bleeding Heart Spider](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/bleeding-heart-spider/medium.jpg)

Photo: empressmoth · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/216460020

## Machine access

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