Nosferatu spider

plural Nosferatu spiders

1. Zoropsis spinimana, a relatively large hunting spider originally from southern Europe.

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

   2022 December 17, “Alien spiders in Switzerland – how worried should we be?”, in SWI swissinfo.ch

   1 more example

   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).

   2023 September 23, “Scan of the month September – It’s spider season”, in Nikon