Species Account for Atypus affinis
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Atypus affinis Eichwald, 1830
Purse Web Spider
Araneae: Atypidae
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Taxonomic group: spiders (Araneae) - County data
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Status: NS
Essex RDB: Listed
Threat: Essex Threatened
Records: 21
First Record: 1918
Latest Record: 2019
1992-on hectads: 1
Pre-1992 hectads: 3
Total hectads: 3
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Essex Red Data List comment
Purse-web spider. Old record from Epping Forest. Modern records from Grays Chalk Quarry, West Tilbury and Hadleigh Castle.
Habitats
Broad Habitat Data (based on 1 records with habitat information)
no subhabitat data available
Structural Habitat Data (based on 5 records with structural habitat information)
Habitat Detail and Method (based on 21 records with habitat detail and method information)
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