Nosferatu spider

Calque of German Nosferatu-Spinne. Named for the resemblance of its markings to the vampire Count Orlok from the 1922 movie Nosferatu.

Nosferatu spider (plural Nosferatu spiders)

1. Zoropsis spinimana, a relatively large hunting spider originally from southern Europe.
   • 2022 December 17, “Alien spiders in Switzerland – how worried should we be?”, in SWI swissinfo.ch‎^[1]:

     This autumn media reports and social media posts about the rapid spread of so-called Nosferatu spiders have caused unease throughout Switzerland.

   • 2023 September 23, “Scan of the month September – It’s spider season”, in Nikon‎^[2]:

     This month, Nikon Metrology’s Thomas Dreisbusch, Application Engineer X-ray & CT, has scanned a spider whose name alone causes fear and terror: the Nosferatu spider (Zoropsis spinimana).

• Zoropsis spinimana on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Zoropsis spinimana on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Zoropsis spinimana on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons