BRITISH SPIDERS AND THEIR DISTRIBUTION 

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Order: 

ARANEAE

.

Sub Order I: 

MYGALOMORPHAE

. 

Fam. 1: ATYPIDAE. 

*Atypus affinis 

Eichw. 

Plate I, fig. 1.

ENG: Cornw., Scilly, Dev., Lundy, Dors., Hants., I. of Wight, Surr., Suss., Kent, Middx., 

Ess., Camb., Channel Is.  

WAL: Glam., Pemb. 

IRE: King's. 

ABROAD: Fr., Germ., Austr., Hung., Holl., Denm., Sp., Port., Majorca, Alg. (var.), 

Morocco (var.), Eur. Russ. 

Sub Order II: 

ARANEOMORPHAE

.

Group I: DICTYNOIDEA. 

Fam. 1: ERESIDAE. 

Eresus niger 

Pet. (

E

.

 cinnabarinus 

Oliv.)

Plate I, fig. 2.

ENG: Dors. (Parley Heath), Hants. (Bournemouth and Poole), Channel Is. 

Note

.   This species may now be extinct in Britain (except the Channel Islands). Six 

specimens have been captured in the Bournemouth area, but none since 1906, and 

the exact localities seem to have been built over. It is possible that it occurs 

elsewhere, e.g. Kynance Cove, Cornwall, but there is no specimen to corroborate 

this. (Bristowe, `Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond.,' 1935, p. 225.) 

ABROAD: Fr., Germ., Holl., Denm., Hung., Czecho., It., Yugo, Albania, Greece, Roum., 

Switz., Eur. and As. Russ., Sp., Port., Morocco, Tunis, Alg. 

Fam. 2: DICTYNIDAE. 

Dictyna arundinacea 

Linn. 

Plate I, fig. 5.

ENG: All counties except Bedf., Leic., Monm., Rutl. Recorded Channel Is., not I. of Man. 

WAL: Apparently scarce. J. Blackwall said,  Various parts of Wales . 

IRE: Armagh, Doneg., Roscom., Kerry, Cork, Waterf., Clare, Tipper., Queen's, King's, 

Westmeath, Mayo. 

* A second species, 

Atypus becki 

Cambr., was formerly included in the British list. 

Examination of the specimen has shown this to be 

A

.

 piceus 

Sulz., but careful scrutiny of the 

evidence has shown that considerable doubt exists as to whether the specimen in question was 

really collected in Britain at all. (Bristowe, `Ann. Mag. N.H.', March, 1933, p. 289.)