Summary for Glyphesis servulus (Araneae)

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National Distribution

 
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Identification difficulty rating: 4
Name: Glyphesis servulus
Authority: (Simon, 1881)
Order: Arachnida: Araneae
Family: Linyphiidae
National Rarity status: NR
IUCN status: NT, criteria: B2a

Records: 81
First Record: 1955
Latest Record: 2024

1992-on hectads: 14
Pre-1992 hectads: 12
Total hectads: 21

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Recorded altitude range
4m to 180m

Species text

Distribution
The species has very scattered records in southern England, but is more widespread in Wales. A European species with records from France, Belgium, the Netherlands and central Europe.

Habitat and ecology
G. servulus has been recorded from wet sedge litter in fens, in grass litter on damp ungrazed pasture and in bogs. It is probably adult at all seasons of the year.

Status
Until the Welsh Peatland Invertebrate Survey recorded the spider in seven sites in five vice-counties in Wales this species was regarded as being very rare. There are no recent records from Wales or from two sites in Dorset and east Sussex, but the spider is assumed to still occur.

Threats
Seral succession may destroy the habitat of this species. Water abstraction will make it difficult to maintain a high water table.

Management and conservation
Water levels need to be maintained and scrub clearance undertaken where succession is taking place. The introduction of cattle grazing might be beneficial at some sites, as long as parts of the habitat are left ungrazed as refugia and levels are sufficient to prevent scrub encroachment and maintain species-rich turf and areas of rougher tussocky grassland.

Text based on Dawson, I.K., Harvey, P.R., Merrett, P. & Russell-Smith, A.R. (in prep.).  References

Adult Season

Adult Season Data (based on 45 records with adult season information)


Habitats

background methodology

Broad Habitat Data (based on 18 records with habitat information)

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Structural Habitat Data (based on 24 records with structural habitat information)

Habitat Detail and Method (based on 42 records with habitat detail and method information)

Recorded management for locations with Glyphesis servulus

Recorded substrate and hydrology for locations with Glyphesis servulus

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