Theridion pictum
Size 4 to 5 mm. This is an attractively patterned mothercare spider.
Frequent in relatively damp terrain, in herbaceous and bush layer.
Summer and autumn.
Builds an untidy web, often in thistles.
Widespread and fairly frequent in much of Britain.
Fairly frequent in Leicestershire and Rutland.
636 British records to Jan 2013
David Gould
Braunstone, fields near Fosse Park
18 September 2021
Graham Calow
Sapcote
22 June 2013
female - specimen examined
David Nicholls
Cossington
11 October 2011
AJ Cann
Saddington Reservoir
15 June 2019
AJ Cann
Saddington Reservoir
15 June 2019
Male palp
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Species profile
- Species group:
- Spiders
- Kingdom:
- Animalia
- Order:
- Araneae
- Family:
- Theridiidae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 6
- First record:
- 11/10/2011 (Nicholls, David)
- Last record:
- 18/09/2021 (Gould, David)
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Graham Calow
Sapcote
05 June 2013
male - specimen examined
Graham Calow
Sapcote
22 June 2013
female - specimen examined
Graham Calow
Stoney Stanton, Highgate Lodge Farm open access land
09 June 2019
female - specimen examined
