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Cave Spider

Meta menardi

596Records since 2000
AugustPeak month
57Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan11
Feb15
Mar7
Apr8
May15
Jun10
Jul15
Aug16
Sep9
Oct7
Nov4
Dec13

GBIF records by month, 2000–2025 (all years combined).

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1North Yorkshire England50
2Highland Scotland33
3Devon England31
4Gwynedd Wales29
5Cumbria England27
6Conwy Wales27
7Gloucestershire England25
8Somerset England24
9Bristol, City of England19
10Worcestershire England12
11Scottish Borders Scotland12
12Kent England10
13Argyll and Bute Scotland10
14Aberdeenshire Scotland10
15Carmarthenshire Wales9
74 England26 Scotland34 Wales1 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 57 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
596
Peak month
August
Counties with records
57
Scientific name
Meta menardi
Group
Spiders
NBN Atlas records since 2000
83
Most recorded in
North Yorkshire
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Arachnida
Order
Araneae
Family
Tetragnathidae
Genus
Meta
Name with authority
Meta menardi (Latreille, 1804)
Described
1804
Contributing datasets
17

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1470676 · GBIF 2151378