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Daddy Longleg

Phalangium opilio

1,100Records since 2000
AugustPeak month
79Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar1
Apr5
May26
Jun130
Jul263
Aug416
Sep114
Oct43
Nov2
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Isle of Anglesey Wales138
2Gwynedd Wales58
3Cornwall England56
4Devon England45
5Worcestershire England44
6Pembrokeshire Wales41
7Carmarthenshire Wales35
8Norfolk England33
9Suffolk England26
10Dorset England25
11Swansea Wales24
12Ceredigion Wales23
13Kent England21
14Oxfordshire England18
15Surrey England18
535 England55 Scotland403 Wales25 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 79 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,100
Peak month
August
Counties with records
79
Scientific name
Phalangium opilio
Group
Mites, harvestmen and other arachnids
NBN Atlas records since 2000
698
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Arachnida
Order
Opiliones
Family
Phalangiidae
Genus
Phalangium
Name with authority
Phalangium opilio Linnaeus, 1758
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
28

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q21059 · GBIF 5776654