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Common candy-striped spider

Enoplognatha ovata

701Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
67Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb1
Mar7
Apr24
May53
Jun214
Jul286
Aug84
Sep17
Oct6
Nov3
Dec1

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Devon England70
2City of Edinburgh Scotland39
3Highland Scotland34
4Norfolk England29
5Cambridgeshire England19
6Oxfordshire England17
7Dorset England15
8Sefton England14
9Essex England13
10Sandwell England13
11Surrey England12
12Cornwall England12
13Lincolnshire England12
14Somerset England11
15Glasgow City Scotland11
396 England91 Scotland8 Wales4 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 67 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
701
Peak month
July
Counties with records
67
Scientific name
Enoplognatha ovata
Group
Spiders
NBN Atlas records since 2000
998
Most recorded in
Devon
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Arachnida
Order
Araneae
Family
Theridiidae
Genus
Enoplognatha
Name with authority
Enoplognatha ovata (Clerck, 1757)
Described
1757
Contributing datasets
22

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1313519 · GBIF 2158077