Bathyphantes nigrinus
Length 2.5-3mm. Prosoma reddish brown, with darkened margins. Sternum almost black. Legs yellow-brown. Opisthosoma dark grey, dorsally and laterally mostly with bright pattern, sometimes dorsally bright without pattern. This is one of the 'money spiders' in the Linyphidae family - which has more UK species than any other. Most are small and need microscopic examination to identify.
Examination of the genitalia is required to confirm this species.
Mainly occurs in shaded woodland but also in damper habitats.
Spring-autumn.
Widespread but local in Britain.
Not commonly recorded.
AJ Cann
Great Merrible
26 July 2022
AJ Cann
Owston Woods
26 May 2020
AJ Cann
Great Merrible
16 April 2021
palp
AJ Cann
Owston Woods
26 May 2020
epigyne
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Species profile
- Species group:
- Spiders
- Kingdom:
- Animalia
- Order:
- Araneae
- Family:
- Linyphiidae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 7
- First record:
- 18/09/2005 (Jon Daws)
- Last record:
- 19/02/2023 (Cann, Alan)
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