A spider
of southern counties of the UK and with no traceable records from
adjacent counties, this seems to be the first Nottinghamshire record and
the most northerly in the UK to date. There are known records from
Staffordshire and Norfolk. Found at Eakring Meadows in June 2019, the
female below was swept from grassy, pondside vegetation and there are
more recent records from the former Calverton Colliery in March 2024
(Brownley, N and Brownley, S.) from a
Bestwood garden (Parkin, S.) and from
Gibraltar Plantation in April 2024. Obviously, a species on the increase
in Nottinghamshire. |