Tetragnatha nigrita
Body length male: 6 to 8 mm, female: 7 to 11 mm. Prosoma dark brown to almost black. Chelicerae dark brown, basally with distinct tubercle. Legs dark brown. Opisthosoma dark brown to almost black, vague folium laterally flanked with silver-white, medially also with silver spots.
Other Tetragnatha species.
Confirmation of this species requires examination at high magnification in good lighting, typically examination of the genitalia.
On trees and bushes in damp woodland, often near water.
Summer- Autumn.
Widespread but local across England and Wales.
Uncommon in Leicestershire and Rutland.
AJ Cann
Croft Pasture
22 May 2022
female
AJ Cann
Saddington
04 July 2022
AJ Cann
Saddington
04 July 2022
AJ Cann
Saddington
04 July 2022
palp
AJ Cann
Croft Pasture
22 May 2022
vulva
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Species profile
- Species group:
- Spiders
- Kingdom:
- Animalia
- Order:
- Araneae
- Family:
- Tetragnathidae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 6
- First record:
- 28/06/1994 (Jon Daws)
- Last record:
- 25/04/2025 (Cann, Alan)
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