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Sputnik Spider

Paidiscura pallens

1,128Records since 2000
JunePeak month
71Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan12
Feb30
Mar36
Apr102
May99
Jun177
Jul167
Aug130
Sep125
Oct87
Nov31
Dec22

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Gloucestershire England141
2Worcestershire England89
3Sheffield England76
4Sefton England54
5Somerset England33
6Cambridgeshire England27
7Liverpool England26
8Oxfordshire England22
9York England21
10Telford and Wrekin England20
11City of Edinburgh Scotland18
12Highland Scotland17
13Halton England17
14Surrey England16
15Cheshire East England12
951 England68 Scotland34 Wales14 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 71 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,128
Peak month
June
Counties with records
71
Scientific name
Paidiscura pallens
Group
Spiders
NBN Atlas records since 2000
522
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Arachnida
Order
Araneae
Family
Theridiidae
Genus
Paidiscura
Name with authority
Paidiscura pallens (Blackwall, 1834)
Described
1834
Contributing datasets
20

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1760146 · GBIF 2155831