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Nursery Web Spider

Pisaura mirabilis

5,102Records since 2000
AprilPeak month
98Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan21
Feb182
Mar319
Apr976
May847
Jun606
Jul511
Aug387
Sep465
Oct299
Nov113
Dec29

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England290
2Kingston upon Hull, City of England166
3Essex England163
4Cambridgeshire England160
5Oxfordshire England129
6Somerset England125
7Surrey England122
8Gloucestershire England122
9Kent England105
10Norfolk England100
11Nottinghamshire England100
12Suffolk England99
13York England83
14Rutland England82
15Devon England70
4,595 England98 Scotland222 Wales50 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 98 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
5,102
Peak month
April
Counties with records
98
Scientific name
Pisaura mirabilis
Group
Spiders
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,880
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Arachnida
Order
Araneae
Family
Pisauridae
Genus
Pisaura
Name with authority
Pisaura mirabilis (Clerck, 1757)
Described
1757
Contributing datasets
32

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1548200 · GBIF 2150764