Money Spiders - Linyphiidae

    Family - Linyphiidae

    The largest family of European Spiders.

    Over four hundred species in over one hundred and twenty genera.

    Most being impossible to identify without a Microscope. 

    Brighton

    17.11.2011

    Extra Mural Cemetery

    Brighton, East Sussex

    25.10.2011

    Brighton 

    06.10.2011

    Extra Mural Cemetery

    Brighton
    27.09.2011

    I found both of these during a break in heavy rains.

    Both on a peice of plastic that's placed over a water butt by my back door.

    Brighton

    06.09.2011

    Dulwich Wood
    London
    14.09.2011

    I think this is a Female Labulla thoracica
    Kingley Vale Nature Reserve
    West Sussex
    07.09.2011

    Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery

    09.07.2011

 

    Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery

    28.04.2011

     

    Money Spider

    Brighton, East Sussex

    06/08/2010

    Linyphia triangularis? Male?

    11/08/2010

    My back garden, Brighton

    31/07/2010

    "My first reaction was that this was Frontinellina frutetorum 

    (see SRS News 47: http://wiki.britishspiders.org.uk/images/8/81/Srs47.pdf )

    but I don't think the shape is quite right: Frontinellina has a

    'vertical back end'.

    There have been no further UK records since the Cambridge record

    which you will see is of doubtful provenance.
    Possibly Linyphia hortensis, but I think the spiders are in fact
    Neriene radiata which is a rare species in this country.
    It is known from a few sites in Scotland, with the Wyre Forest
    in Worcestershire for long the only known English locality.
    Distribution map to 2005 here:

    http://www.britishspiders.org.uk/html/bas.php?page=ukmap&taxon_key=nbnsys0000152322

     However, it was found in woodland near Chiddingfold in Sussex last year
    (by Graeme Lyons of Sussex Wildlife Trust), so a record
    from Brighton would not be too much of a range extension.
    I would not like to say for sure though without seeing a specimen."
    Ian Dawson (BAS) via Gary Bradley of uksafari.com

    Unfortunately the Spider had moved on before I could retrieve it.

    Extra Mural Graveyard
    Brighton
    August 2010

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    For a Video of Mating Money Spiders, click HERE

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    Money Spider feasting on a Lace Webbed Spider

    31/10/2010

 

    Back Garden, Brighton

    28/09/2010
 
    Back Garden, Brighton
    16/09/2010