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Metellina mengei

815Records since 2000
JunePeak month
56Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan2
Feb5
Mar12
Apr78
May139
Jun172
Jul62
Aug29
Sep66
Oct40
Nov19
Dec2

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Gloucestershire England142
2Worcestershire England135
3Highland Scotland56
4Nottinghamshire England45
5Telford and Wrekin England43
6Dorset England19
7Gwynedd Wales18
8Oxfordshire England14
9Devon England14
10Cambridgeshire England11
11Ceredigion Wales8
12Herefordshire, County of England8
13Angus Scotland8
14Surrey England7
15Pembrokeshire Wales7
616 England98 Scotland49 Wales16 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 56 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
815
Peak month
June
Counties with records
56
Group
Spiders
NBN Atlas records since 2000
768
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Arachnida
Order
Araneae
Family
Tetragnathidae
Genus
Metellina
Name with authority
Metellina mengei (Blackwall, 1869)
Described
1869
Contributing datasets
31

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1758105 · GBIF 2151598