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Cucumber green spider

Araniella cucurbitina

256Records since 2000
JunePeak month
46Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan2
Feb0
Mar0
Apr10
May46
Jun119
Jul59
Aug8
Sep8
Oct0
Nov0
Dec4

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Gloucestershire England43
2Nottinghamshire England32
3Highland Scotland25
4Cambridgeshire England12
5Devon England7
6Norfolk England5
7Bristol, City of England4
8Suffolk England3
9Surrey England3
10Essex England3
11Cumbria England3
12Herefordshire, County of England3
13Glasgow City Scotland3
14Kingston upon Hull, City of England3
15Kent England2
203 England36 Scotland4 Wales5 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 46 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
256
Peak month
June
Counties with records
46
Scientific name
Araniella cucurbitina
Group
Spiders
NBN Atlas records since 2000
654
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Arachnida
Order
Araneae
Family
Araneidae
Genus
Araniella
Name with authority
Araniella cucurbitina (Clerck, 1757)
Described
1757

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1545036 · GBIF 2158384