Summary details for Agroeca proxima (O.P.-Cambridge, 1871)

Species Details

Species name: Agroeca proxima (O.P.-Cambridge, 1871)
Taxonomy: Animalia :: Araneae :: Liocranidae

Distribution

The species is widely distributed throughout Britain. It is fairly widespread in north-western and central Europe as far north as Sweden.

Habitat and ecology

This nocturnal hunter is ground living with a preference for fairly dry habitats amongst leaf litter, grasses, heather and other low vegetation. It is one of the commonest species on heathland. As with A. brunnea, the egg-sac is attached to a stem of grass or other low plant and surrounded by a protective silk chamber which is covered by soil particles (Roberts 1995). Adults of both sexes are found mainly in late summer and autumn, occasionally into late winter and spring with females persisting into the summer.

Status

Fairly common. Original author of profile: R. Ruffell Text based on Harvey, P.R., Nellist, D.R. & Telfer, M.G. (eds) 2002. Provisional atlas of British spiders (Arachnida, Araneae), Volumes 1 & 2. Huntingdon: Biological Records Centre.

Stats

First recorded: 1879
Last recorded: 2025
Total records: 4,178
Total visits: 4,055

Conservation status

Agroeca proxima

Source	Reporting category	Designation	Date designated	Comments
A Review of the scarce and threatened spiders (Araneae) of Great Britain: Species Status No. 22 (Sep 2017)	Red listing based on 2001 IUCN guidelines	Least concern	01/09/2017

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