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Common Stretch Spider

Tetragnatha extensa

932Records since 2000
JunePeak month
58Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan4
Feb6
Mar12
Apr11
May91
Jun282
Jul197
Aug131
Sep96
Oct28
Nov3
Dec4

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Norfolk England161
2Devon England89
3Isle of Anglesey Wales52
4Highland Scotland44
5Worcestershire England40
6Cambridgeshire England38
7Gloucestershire England37
8Nottinghamshire England33
9Gwynedd Wales29
10Ceredigion Wales26
11Swansea Wales18
12Powys Wales16
13Dorset England15
14Surrey England13
15Fife Scotland12
500 England113 Scotland169 Wales4 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 58 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
932
Peak month
June
Counties with records
58
Scientific name
Tetragnatha extensa
Group
Spiders
NBN Atlas records since 2000
762
Most recorded in
Norfolk, Devon, Isle of Anglesey
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Arachnida
Order
Araneae
Family
Tetragnathidae
Genus
Tetragnatha
Name with authority
Tetragnatha extensa (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
38

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1500718 · GBIF 2151859