Uloborus plumipes Lucas, 1846
(Garden Centre Spider)

Taxonomic hierarchy:
SpeciesUloborus plumipes (Garden Centre Spider)
FamilyULOBORIDAE (triangle spiders, cribellate orb-web spiders)
OrderARANEAE (spiders)
ClassARACHNIDA (mites, spiders, false scorpions, harvestmen etc.)
SubphylumCHELICERATA (a subphylum of arthropods)
PhylumARTHROPODA (arthropods)
SuperphylumECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
CladeBilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
SubkingdomEUMETAZOA (metazoans)
KingdomANIMALIA (animals)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)
Records of Uloborus plumipes (Garden Centre Spider) :
1: Uloborus plumipes (Garden Centre Spider)
15 Aug 2016 OSGR: SZ19 50° 50’ N, 1° 50’ W Vice County: South Hants (VC 11) England
2 females, hanging from webs inside display carton, indoors
Image 1: Female - dorsal view - highly enlarged - silver backgroundImage 2: Female - dorso-llateral view - highly enlarged - silver backgroundImage 3: Female - hanging from web - from above - highly enlarged - silver backgroundImage 4: Female - hanging from web - lateral view - highly enlarged - silver backgroundImage 5: Female - hind parts - ventral view - magnified - silver backgroundImage 6: Female - lateral view - highly enlarged - silver backgroundImage 7: Female - opisthosoma - ventral view - magnified - silver backgroundImage 8: Female - playing dead - lateral view - highly enlarged - silver backgroundImage 9: Female - ventral view - highly enlarged - silver background

Identification Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
Harvey, P., Nellist, D. & Telfer, M. 2002 Recording Britain’s spiders British Wildlife Vol 13, No. 3: 191-197.

Uloborus plumipes (Garden Centre Spider) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

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