Floronia bucculenta
Length. 4 to 5 mm. Prosoma yellowish with wide black margins extending to the eye area. A median strip or another type of prosoma drawing is not pronounced. Opisthosoma dorsally brown to grey base colour and a clear white spot or plate-like marbling, dark longitudinal median line. Ventral usually also with a dark longitudinal band. Legs yellowish with dark bands on the joints.
Distinctive appearance. Tibial spines: 2222
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Occurs on bushes and low vegetation in damp places in a variety of habitats.
Adults mostly found in summer and autumn.
The species is widespread in much of England, especially the south east, but infrequent.
Generally uncommon.
AJ Cann
Pickworth Great Wood
17 July 2019
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Species profile
- Species group:
- Spiders
- Kingdom:
- Animalia
- Order:
- Araneae
- Family:
- Linyphiidae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 2
- First record:
- 17/07/2019 (Cann, Alan)
- Last record:
- 11/10/2025 (Cann, Alan)
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