Pachygnatha clercki
4-6mm. Prosoma yellow-brown with dark margin and median stripe. Chelicerae same colour as prosoma. Opisthosoma mostly light yellow, folium vague, sometimes with dark median line.
Pachygnatha clercki is a ground-living species usually found in wet habitats such as bogs and marshes, and on the margins of streams, rivers and lakes.
All year round
Widespread and fairly frequent in Britain, though never common.
Fairly common in Leicestershire and Rutland.
8492 British records to Jan 2013
Graham Calow
Jubilee Walk, Leire
13 May 2014
female - specimen examined
Graham Calow
Burbage Common
12 May 2019
male - specimen examined
AJ Cann
Gilmorton
05 January 2019
AJ Cann
Gilmorton
05 January 2019
David Nicholls
Rutland Water, Egleton NR
26 March 2010
Graham Calow
Sapcote
22 April 2013
female - specimen examined
AJ Cann
Gilmorton
05 January 2019
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Species profile
- Species group:
- Spiders
- Kingdom:
- Animalia
- Order:
- Araneae
- Family:
- Tetragnathidae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 22
- First record:
- 03/06/1992 (Jon Daws)
- Last record:
- 19/08/2022 (Cann, Alan)
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David Nicholls
Thornton Reservoir
30 September 2011
