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Cricket Bat Spider

Mangora acalypha

685Records since 2000
JunePeak month
39Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb6
Mar23
Apr70
May148
Jun166
Jul111
Aug58
Sep34
Oct32
Nov25
Dec1

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Gloucestershire England41
2Cambridgeshire England38
3Norfolk England36
4Surrey England35
5Devon England34
6Essex England23
7Oxfordshire England22
8Dorset England21
9Suffolk England20
10Sandwell England14
11Northamptonshire England10
12York England10
13Somerset England9
14Kent England8
15Dudley England8
602 England10 Wales

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 39 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
685
Peak month
June
Counties with records
39
Scientific name
Mangora acalypha
Group
Spiders
NBN Atlas records since 2000
232
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Arachnida
Order
Araneae
Family
Araneidae
Genus
Mangora
Name with authority
Mangora acalypha (Walckenaer, 1802)
Described
1802
Contributing datasets
14

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q597490 · GBIF 2159061