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title: "Sieciarz jaskiniowy"
description: "Meta menardi — Owady i pająki. Meta menardi, the European cave spider, is a long-jawed orb-weaving spider (family Tetragnathidae)."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pl/animal/european-cave-spider
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Sieciarz jaskiniowy

> Meta menardi — Owady i pająki. Meta menardi, the European cave spider, is a long-jawed orb-weaving spider (family Tetragnathidae).

- Scientific name: *Meta menardi*
- Category: `insects` (Owady i pająki)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 4430
- Wikidata: [Q1470676](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1470676)
- iNaturalist taxon: [224958](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/224958)

## Names

- en: European cave spider
- de: Höhlenradnetzspinne
- fr: Meta des grottes
- nl: Gewone grottenspin
- pl: Sieciarz jaskiniowy

## Countries with the most observations

FR (529), IT (500), GB (282), DE (195), SE (172), PL (140), AT (132), DK (117), CZ (107), CH (106), NO (55), ES (41)

## Summary

Meta menardi, the European cave spider, is a long-jawed orb-weaving spider (family Tetragnathidae). It is also known as the orbweaving cave spider and the cave orbweaver.

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

## Photo

![Sieciarz jaskiniowy](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/european-cave-spider/medium.jpg)

Photo: Raffaele Maiorano · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/98373695

## Machine access

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