Gold-spotted Harvestman

Nemastoma bimaculatum · Order: Opiliones · Family: Nemastomatidae

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Gold-spotted Harvestman
Photo: Victor Heng, CC0

The gold-spotted harvestman is a black arachnid that usually has two cream spots on its cephalothorax.

Source: Wikipedia

Size

The creature is black and bears two cream spots on its front body.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it comes from

It is found in Britain, Ireland, France, Germany and Spain.

Source: Wikipedia

Status: introduced in Canada. Source: iNaturalist

More photos

Gold-spotted Harvestman photo 3
Photo: AJC1 from UK, CC BY-SA 2.0
Gold-spotted Harvestman photo 4
Photo: Carl Ludwig Koch, Public domain
Gold-spotted Harvestman photo 5
Photo: Carl Ludwig Koch, Public domain

Sources

  • Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemastoma_bimaculatum

Look it up elsewhere: GBIF · iNaturalist · BugGuide · Wikipedia

Text written 2026-10-23 from the sources above and checked sentence by sentence against them. Data fetched 2026-10-23.

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